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GYMnQ TIL of William S. Clark who founded what would become Hokkaido University. Although forgotten in America, he had a significant impact on the scientific and economic development of Hokkaido and is widely revered in Japan. His parting words to his college were, "Boys, be ambitious!"
4Q5b TIL that Canada caught and removed more spies from the U.S than from any other country in the last ten years.
ELGW TIL that because of the gay character in 2017’s “Beauty and the Beast,” Malaysia didn’t allow children under 13 to see it without being accompanied by an adult; Russia didn’t allow children under 16 without an adult; and Kuwait effectively banned it entirely.
EwOX TIL that Ava Gardner once swam naked in a pool belonging to Ernest Hemingway. He ordered that the water never be changed.
GpME TIL there is frozen lake in India surrounded by hundreds of human skeletons. Scientists dated the skulls to about 850 AD and concluded that all of them had died due to a freak hailstorm