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wLnp6 TIL A recent report found the average cost of groceries for a family of four in Nunavut is $19,760 per year while almost half of Inuit adults earn less than $20,000 annually
Zn8G TIL on the stroke of midnight on Jan 1, 1900, the SS Warrimoo intentionally crossed the international date line exactly at the equator. This put the vessel in two different seasons and two different centuries at the same time.
l7MBB TIL the Japanese baseball team the Chunichi Dragons has a Koala mascot named Doala the Koala.
b5LZ TIL, The Strid is a narrow stream in Yorkshire with a deep chasm and undercurrents so strong that not a single person who has fallen into the Strid has ever come out of it alive
9wQVX TIL that there is a British Weights & Measures Association established to halt metrication and return to full use of Imperial Units, and it publishes a biannual newsletter called "The Yardstick"