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TIL Canada has the largest zoo in the world covering 710 acres

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j6JQQ TIL Winston Churchill said, "If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons."
KY0RR TIL Link Wray’s 1958 instrumental "Rumble" was banned in several US radio markets, because the term 'rumble' was a slang term for a gang fight, and it was feared that the piece's harsh sound glorified juvenile delinquency. The song is the only instrumental single ever banned from radio in the USA.
QV79 TIL In South Park when Kenny would die and Stan or Kyle would exclaim “they” and “you bastards” to apparently no one in particular, they are actually referring to Stone and Parker themselves, as though they are omnipresent within the show’s universe.
5Ykgn TIL that refrigerators with the freezer on the upper part is more energy efficient than those with the freezer on the lower part. This is because colder air is denser, and if the freezer compartment is on the top, cold air can just passively move to the fridge compartment on the lower part.