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TIL that 70% of the world production of maple syrup is from the Province of Quebec.

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e05yk TIL In 1971, after LANSA flight 508 was struck by lightening above Peru, 17 year old Juliane Koepcke fell from the sky for two miles but survived. Despite extensive wounds, she walked for 11 days in the rainforest before finding a group of fishermen who helped transport her to a hospital.
RZbQ TIL Johnny Cash and his first wife Vivian named their daughter, Roseanne, after Johnny’s nickname for Vivian’s boobs: Rose and Anne
yVZyX TIL Shrek was based on a picture book originally published in 1990.
9YkvB TIL that Frida Sofia, a 12-year-old girl believed to be trapped in a collapsed school building and who had become a symbol of hope in earthquake-devastated Mexico City last year, turned out "not to exist" following a 30-hour rescue mission.
v5e4 TIL of a court case where a burglar sued the owner of an uno㏄upied house for sett㏌g a shotgun booby trap to fire on someones feet as they are open㏌g the door．After the owner lost the court case he was asked what he would have done differently; he responded，" I’d have aimed that gun a few feet higher"