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TIL 50% of Toronto’s populace was born outside Canada

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awRN0 TIL the origin of the term “Love” as 0 in tennis is heavily disputed. The most common belief is that it originated from the french word for egg (L’oeuf) as the shape of the zero represented an egg
VMrRG TIL Rivers Cuomo of Weezer wrote a program to select songs for the band's cover album, the Teal Album. The program gathered data from Spotify's API to find the most popular songs released before 1994 not tagged "classic rock" or "alternative rock".
gjL8 TIL despite the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, Ukraine still gets 47% of its electricity from nuclear energy, compared to United States’ 19%.
OQX4 TIL: Scientists considered bombing Japanese volcanoes in World War II to trigger eruptions.
d8XO7 TIL when the Mets beat the Red Sox in the 1986 World Series, many Yankee fans attended the parade celebrating the Mets' win, saying that "anyone who beats Boston is worth coming down for."