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TIL: Canadians eat more donuts per capita than any other country.

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Dw1v TIL that in 2009 Amtrak police arrested a man because he was taking pictures of some Amtrak trains and seemed suspicious. The reason for taking the pictures, an Amtrak photo contest.
D1oOv TIL that when the Japanese emperor announced Japan's surrender in WW2, his speech was too formal and vague for the general populace to understand. Many listeners were left confused and it took some people hours, some days, to understand that Japan had, in fact, surrendered.
LxmV TIL in 2004 van Gogh’s great-grandnephew, Theo, was murdered for making a film about violence against women in Islam. He was shot more than 8 times, cut in the throat to decapitate him, stabbed in the chest and stabbed with another knife attaching a note that threatened Western countries & Jews.
yr5e TIL Popular hotels in New Orleans put grease on balcony support poles during Mardi Gras so drunks can’t climb in.
x6kWw TIL that a form of congenital groin cysts is linked to a "tenfold increase" in schizophrenia prevalence. Link is SFW - searching for "hidradenitis" is not.