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TIL about Freedom Ship, a traveling floating city concept imagined with the primary objective of housing 60,000 residents to avoid taxes.

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Y7g0B TIL in the 1935 Prince Edward Island election, 42.1% of voters voted for the Conservative party. However, because of their geographic distribution across the province, the Liberals still won 100% of the seats in the Legislative Assembly, which was a first for the entire Commonwealth.
pVe TIL that you would have to walk the full length of a football field just to burn off one plain M&M candy.
M7B0W TIL: In the classic cartoon strip, Tintin, Tintin is always moving left to right and his opponents are moving right to left. His adventure, "Cigars of the Pharoah," had to be redrawn when it was discovered that this rule was broken.
PY77V TIL Of Col. Bruce Carr. A P-51 pilot in WW2 who was shot down and managed to steal a German FW-190 and fly it back to England
lK45 TIL that Ellen Degeneres turned down the role of Phoebe on “Friends.”