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TIL, kids growing up in Canada played "The Yukon Trail" instead of the Oregon Trail in the US.

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x6n8B TIL that, in addition to the verdicts of Guilty and Not Guilty, courts in Scotland are also allowed to issue Not Proven verdicts
VW6G TIL the Aztecs were not a single society or nation but many separate tribes that shared a common language and culture . The tribe in power during the Spanish Conquest was the Mexica tribe, the country’s eventual namesake.
4kg8N TIL copper is one of the few metals that can occur in nature in a directly usable metallic form, leading it to be perhaps the first metal to be mined and crafted by humans.
e0M5 TIL in the U.K., hipsters are known as ‘dickheads’
b9XKp TIL in 2007, an English woman cremated her missing son, only for him to turn up alive and well a day later. It turned out that the police had mistakenly identified another dead man as her son, and she herself had become convinced after they confirmed his “distinctive scars”, such as a brain injury.