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TIL Canada did not have official residences for its political leaders until 1950. Laurier House in Ottawa was home to two Canadian Prime Ministers in the decades prior and served as PM Mackenzie King's unofficial office where he conducted much of the nation's business

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6EP6J TIL The Hopi Reservation does not observe daylight savings time, but it is completely surrounded by the Navajo Reservation which does observe daylight savings time. The Navajo reservation is in Arizona which does not observe daylight savings.
LwaZ TIL that authors J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis made a pact to write books on two topics. Lewis would take “space travel,” Tolkien “time travel”. Lewis completed his “space travel” trilogy, but Tolkien never finished his “time travel” books. Instead, Tolkien wrote “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy.
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