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TIL Paul the Octopus correctly selected eight out of eight winning teams for football matches, including Spain's win over Holland in 2010.

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0wRxv TIL Natural gas has no smell. Gas companies are required to add a chemical called mercaptin as a safety precaution, so people know the smell and can identify a leak.
Bwnb TIL that there’s a man who shops at Trader Joe’s in Seattle and buys things in bulk and then transports them up to Vancouver to his own store called “Pirate Joe's” because there are no Trader Joe’s in Canada. He’s gotten banned at some Trader Joe’s and sometimes has to put on disguises to shop.
9YobB TIL the first ever NBA game was played in Canada, on Nov.1, 1946, between the Knicks and the Toronto Huskies at Maple Leaf Gardens.
OG4Me TIL there is a modern world capital that is an uninhabitable ghost town. Plymouth, Montserrat is a modern Pompeii, destroyed by volcanic eruptions in the late 1990s
LQ56d TIL that Cape Disappointment was so named, by John Meares in 1788, who was searching for the mouth of the Columbia River as charted on Spanish maps. He had found the river but mistakenly thought the mouth was a bay, that the Spanish maps were wrong, and called it Deception Bay.