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TIL Drowsy driving is as dangerous as Drunk driving.

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VBQXk TIL that Mount Kosciuszko, recognized as the tallest mountain in Australia, was actually mislabeled and was shorter than the actual tallest mountain (Mount Townsend). To correct the error, the names of the mountains were simply swapped.
x6aro TIL of the Liverpool Packet, a Canadian privateer vessel that captured 50 American ships during The War of 1812. She was captured by US forces, before then being recaptured by The British.
R7nrj TIL that the Canadian flag was created because Egypt rejected Canada as a peacekeeping country.
16aV TIL that in 1958 Mao insisted that a meeting with Krushchev take place in a pool, knowing that Krushchev couldn’t swim. Krushchev had to wear floaties for it.
Z8Lx4 TIL: Solid blocks of gutta percha have been washing up on European beaches since 2012. The most likely source is from the Miyazaki Maru, a Japanese ocean liner that was sunk during WWI by the same U-boat captain who sunk the Lusitania.