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TIL the 1981 sex comedy Porky’s is the highest-grossing Canadian film of all time with slightly over $111 million

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VMppk TIL that owls can’t move their eyes in their sockets making their 180 degree neck turning necessary to see around them
rmdM TIL Google has created and tested driverless cars on the streets of California, and over the course of 300,000 miles, they’ve only been in two accidents: One while someone was driving the car manually, and one in which the car was rear-ended at a stoplight.
16xwV TIL that on 11 May 1910, 260 children were left fatherless and 85 women widowed as a result of the Wellington Pit Explosion in Whitehaven, Cumbria.
d8no8 TIL the national Do Not Call (DNC) Registry does not include calls being made for the sole purpose of conducting a survey or poll, those calls are exempt.
VB6j0 TIL After Hurricane Katrina, residents would decorate their refrigerators. The "Katrina Refrigerator," which was taped shut and left on the curb, became a community source of graffiti, art, political and creative expression.