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TIl - There's no evidence that the word hoser was ever actually used by Canadians before appearing on SCTV's "Bob and Doug McKenzie" sketches

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w5DY TIL that a historian in the Warsaw Ghetto organized a massive effort to record everything that was happening there, including everything from diaries to photographs and letters. The collection, called Oyneg Shabbos, was buried in three places in 1943, and the largest part hasn’t yet been found.
j7rX TIL A study found that because 75% of students had to work while going to college only part time, over 75% were unable to finish even after 8 years. Only 6.1% of working part time students graduated within 4 years, and only 25% graduate within 8.
e05LL TIL 85% of our old clothes end up in a landfill, equating to about 25 billion tons of textile waste annually in North America that contaminate the water and soil because most of the clothing fibers cannot biodegrade.
eylb TIL To acquire their first users, Pinterest Co-Founder Ben Silbermann would run around Apple shops changing all browsers to Pintrest, before they caught him and kicked him out.
woldY TIL the only Monegasque competitor to ever have won an Olympic medal Olympic is Julien Médécin, who received a Bronze medal for Architecture in 1924