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TIL that Canada had a nuclear arsenal until 1984.

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mRgp TIL that the Norse people carried their dead through a “corpse door” feet first so the corpse couldn’t see where it was going. Preventing the dead from returning.
woyJ1 TIL Queensrÿche chose the spelling ryche instead of reich to avoid association with nazism. Ryche is a middle english cognate of the German reich, and it means kingdom, realm, or empire
KY9W9 TIL that Pablo Picasso was arrested as a suspect in the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa.
e0mvJ TIL that there is such thing as Cotton Candy grapes that legitimately taste like cotton candy and involves no genetic engineering or artificial flavors
YW9B TIL that after their only son died at the age of 15, Leland Stanford founded Stanford University and told his wife that “the children of California shall be our children.”