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

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8AQX TIL in 1993, during a Friar’s Club roast of Whoopie Goldberg, her then-boyfriend Ted Danson appeared in black-face and began telling racially charged jokes. Montel Williams stormed out of the event and then-Mayor Dinkins claimed offense. It was later revealed that Whoopie wrote the jokes.
ojQ8 TIL of the Encyclopedia of Ethical Failure, the government’s official collection of hilarious and unethical abuses of resources by employees (direct link in comments)
wogE TIL one of Woody Harrelson’s four conditions for accepting the role of Tallahassee in Zombieland was that the director not eat dairy products for a week
DQX4P TIL Childhood trauma is the template for addiction—any addiction. All addictions are attempts to escape the deep pain of the hurt child, attempts temporarily soothing but ultimately futile.
69WNY TIL that the civilization of Easter Island was not destroyed because the people cut the trees down. In fact, it was the europeans and their South American descendants who caused the collapse the population in this island through disease, slavery and kidnapping the few remaining locals it had.