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TIL, Kraft Dinner (Mac and Cheese) is a Canadian national dish. It is the most popular grocery item in the country.

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ep7EL TIL about the “golden horse”, thought to be the oldest existing horse breed, and has a very distinctive metallic sheen to their coats.
OGX7 TIL the nonsense song that Rafiki sings to Simba in The Lion King is actually a common Swahili children’s song
a87Xb TIL Beethoven in his 1822 composition Piano Sonata No. 32 wrote a powerful, heavily syncopated passage that has been described as boogie-woogie, jazz, and ragtime, a style which would not exist for another 70 years.
aWMy TIL an app exists where you can call and wake up strangers.
v55D TIL: Sun Microsystems bought StarDivision, the company that owned StarOffice (the precursor to OpenOffice), for $59.5 million because it was cheaper than licensing Microsoft Office for their staff of 42,000.