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TIL Canadians say “sorry” so much that a law was passed in 2009 declaring that an apology can’t be used as evidence of admission to guilt.

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4k9JJ TIL that Postal codes in Slovakia and Czechia are inherited from Czechoslovakia and do not overlap. Czech part had areas starting from 1 to 7 and Slovak part had 8,9 and 0. Old system was good enough and there was no reason for authorities to change it after the countries separated in 1993.
groN9 TIL that Paris Hilton's Grandfather was so disgusted by her and her sister's antics that instead of leaving his $4.5 B fortune to his 24 heirs, he gave 97% of it to his family charity and instead of getting $181 M each, each heir only received $5.6M. Paris still has $300M from her antics though.
1aaRV TIL that under the Articles of Confederation, Canada was entitled to become a state and join the US. Any other former British colony would need the approval of at least nine states to become a state itself. (See Article XI)
Gma7 TIL the difference between a cemetery and a graveyard is cemeteries are considered burial grounds while the older term graveyards is considered burial grounds attached to a church.
l7aA5 TIL about the DIMI-S "Sexophone", a device made by ground-breaking synthesiser pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi in 1972, which allowed up to four people to generate sounds based on how they touched each other's bodies, and apparently only reached its full expressive range if everyone involved was naked