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TIL the Canadian postal code for the North pole is H0H 0H0

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5VY69 TIL about Scabby the Rat. When unions are protesting in NYC outside any company, they put a huge blow up rat.
aeON TIL Canada built a reservoir within the remnant of an ancient eroded meteor crater. Visible from space, it is known as “The Eye of Quebec.
wL10J TIL about Shigeru Yokosawa, a sixty-year-old hospital admin who sacrificed his life by, in the face of an approaching tsunami, rushing to retrieve the hospital's satellite phone. The phone he saved became his colleagues' only lifeline to the outside world after the disaster.
ov6A TIL there is an Australian band called “The Beards”. Every single one of their 38 songs is about beards.
P1QWO TIL that a 6 year-old girl used Amazon Alexa to order a $160 dollhouse and 4 lb of cookies. When a San Diego TV station broadcast a news report on the incident, the words "Alexa ordered me a dollhouse" caused Alexa devices around the city to try to order dollhouses.