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

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BgE9L TIL: The Capacitor Plague, where capacitors had much higher failure rates between 1999 and 2007, as the formula was miscopied when a scientist stole it through corporate espionage in Japan. They returned to China and gave it to their previous employer, who put the faulty formula into production.
BrGAe TIL North Korean Kim Jong Il leader visited Pudong, the hotbed of China's information industry, saying he wanted to gain and to learn from China. Chinese President Jiang Zemin also travelled to Pyongyang for three days to build friendship with North Korea
y1rl TIL that William Marston was a polyamorous psychologist and inventor whose wife, Elizabeth Holloway, inspired him to create a female superhero who triumphed via love (Wonder Woman), and the affinity for metallic bracelets worn by their partner, Olivia Byrne, inspired Wonder Woman’s iconic bracelets.
JrXV TIL Near the bottom of the Grand Canyon, you can place your hand across a geological division where the difference in age between the rock touching your upward fingers and the rock touching the base of your hand is more than 1 billion years.
kJJ65 TIL that getting goosebumps triggers new hair growth. They cause hair to rise in the short term and trigger more hair growth in the long term.