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TIL a guy lived inside his couch for two years to avoid a one year prison sentence. His wife and kids were all in on it.

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NXyee TIL In 1910, Canada tried to attract settlers with its campaign "The Last Best West" to promote free land with the slogan "Living is cheap; climate is good; education and land are free.” More than two million settlers from Europe and the US poured into the prairies from 1896 to 1914
l5NA TIL that you can use your old Android devices or idle time in your computer to cure diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research.
78ZpP TIL about the “small penis rule” - an informal strategy used by authors to evade libel lawsuits
LkvV9 TIL - only three women have appeared on UK Bank Notes (excluding the Queen) - Florence Nightingale £10.00 (1975), Elizabeth Fry £5.00 (2002) & Jane Austen £10.00 (2017). Twleve men have appeared by contrast.
D16MD TIL Blue Whales eat between 20 and 50 million calories every day. That's approximately what a human adult eat in 50 years (2500 calories/day). In the words of the researcher himself, "that is about 70 to 80 thousand Big Macs".