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TIL that Canada has the third-largest oil reserves in the world.

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pvlZ TIL Monty Python’s album ‘The Monty Python Matching Tie And Handkerchief’ had double grooves on side B, meaning that depending on where you dropped the needle, a different set of tracks would play. Because there was no track listing, many fans were genuinely confused.
4WKa TIL Rasputin was once a faith healer called upon to heal the Tsarevich of Russia, who was dying due to complications from hemophilia. Rasputin simply sent a telegram stating that the Tsarevich would not die. The Tsarevich recovered and Rasputin took the credit.
LQy5d TIL that AI can determine with a high degree of accuracy if fingerprints from different fingers belong to the same person - but it remains a mystery as to how it does this...
j6KLp TIL that Chinese men cut off their queue (plait) as a symbol of revolution in the 19th century.
VMpx4 TIL That bugs and some other animals have green blood because they use copper to bind oxygen instead of iron