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TIL there are many cases of Canadians who find out they never had Canadian citizenship because they were born in a U.S. hospital.

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wLV6E TIL that Ghanaian soccer player Mohammed Anas accidentally thanked both his wife and his girlfriend in a speech after a match.
69XOX TIL Jacked Up! was a segment on ESPN showing the most violent hits in the National Football League. It was cancelled by ESPN in the wake of concussion studies that showed a correlation with violent football collisions and chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE.
6EagY TIL about Paul-Félix Armand-Delille who, when trying to reduce the rabbit population on his estate, purposefully released the myxomatosis virus amongst them which spread and destroyed the wild rabbit populations of Europe
kOamW TIL when King Louis XVI of France was executed via guillotine, it did not sever his neck. The blade went through the back of his skull and into his jaw.
a8rkL TIL there is a territory in a country that is within the borders of another country within the borders of its own country i.e the territory of Nahwa in UAE.