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TIL: Canada has one fifth of the world’s freshwater.

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9wVnM TIL that some reptile species are oviparous (lay eggs), while others are viviparous (birth live young), and that some species are capable of doing both.
4kM6w TIL An aboriginal man with a tomahawk was the first Australian to capture a Japanese POW during WWII. He snuck up to a downed pilot and took him to the military base on a neighboring island.
9YKNQ TIL: Sir George Everest did not want Mount Everest named after him. He objected that his surname could not be written in the Hindi language and that it was difficult for the locals to pronounce.
oRnRK TIL that the time period in which dinosaurs lived is so vast, there were dinosaur fossils when dinosaurs were still alive.
ADkBd TIL in 1935 a recently-captured shark vomited up a tatooed human arm. When a medical examination of the arm revealed it had not been bitten off by the shark but had been removed from its body in a non-surgical procedure, the focus of the investigation turned to murder.