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TIL in 1972 Canada had a contest to complete the saying "As Canadian as...". The winner was "As Canadian as possible under the circumstances."

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e0r7g TIL Yawning is more contagious among people who are emotionally close. An experiment found family members showed the greatest contagion, in terms of both occurrence of yawning and frequency of yawns, while strangers and acquaintances showed a comparatively longer delay in the yawn response.
gMQR9 TIL there's a school students call "the Christian Hogwarts"
0JNj TIL When Robert Wadlow, the tallest man ever, was 5 he had to wear clothes to fit a 17 year old and when he was 17, he was 8'3 feet tall.
woMwo TIL in 1996, a cyclone with charactristics of a tropical storm formed over Lake Huron and lasted for about 5 days
Ryn9 TIL that during prohibition, grape farmers would make semi-solid grape concentrates called wine bricks, which were then sold with the warning “After dissolving the brick in a gallon of water, do not place the liquid in a jug away in the cupboard for twenty days, because then it would turn into wine”