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TIL the Canadian government established one of the most northern settlements in the world by tricking 8 families into living there and then not allowing them to leave.

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4XwMb TIL the largest lawsuit ever filed was for $2 Undecillion. That's a 2 followed by 36 zeros.
ab7Z TIL a poll in the year 2000, the Japanese believe that their best invention of the 20th century was instant noodles.
gr5JW TIL in 1985 Cannon Films bought filming right for Spider Man, believing it was wolf man like character. In their treatment, Peter Parker transforms into eight armed hairy monster.
mxXo TIL that one Japanese company, ykk or Waikeikei Gurūpu, manufactures 90% of all zippers in the world.
d88bQ TIL on a flight, Nicolas Cage used the PA system and said that he was the pilot and was not feeling well. At the airport, police prepared to arrest Cage and his traveling partner, Charlie Sheen. After Cage politely talked his way out of it, he later discovered that Sheen was carrying cocaine on him.