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TIL: Canada has one fifth of the world’s freshwater.
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TIL: a 15 year old teenager was beaten to death after spending only 14 hours in Internet Addiction clinic
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TIL of “the Tree That Owns Itself.” In 1890, a landowner left an oak tree and the surrounding land to the tree itself. When the original tree was knocked down by a storm in 1940, the new tree was planted from an acorn and is now known as “The Son of the Tree That Owns Itself.”
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TIL that every Depeche Mode studio album since Songs of Faith and Devotion in 1993 has hit #1 in Germany. That's 8 albums in a row now.
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TIL Sid Meier did not include multiplayer in the original Civilization because be believed: “if you had friends, you wouldn’t need to play computer games”
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TIL about perpetual stew, a stew containing whatever is on hand and added to as needed. Constantly kept above the “danger zone”, it can be in the same pot for years if always above 140f, creating a perpetual cycle of adding and removing from it. It was often a staple of medieval inn meals.