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TIL Brendan Fraser is the first American-born actor to be inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.

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YZXG TIL the first proposal to tunnel under the English Channel was put forward by a Frenchman in 1802. It would have had illumination from oil lamps, horse-drawn coaches, and an artificial island mid-Channel for changing horses
p8GOQ TIL of Carl Linnaeus, the father of modern taxonomy. His remains are the type specimen for Homo Sapiens. If any human evolves to such a point as to where they can no longer be described as being the same species as Carl's remains, they will no longer count as Homo Sapiens and will be a new species.
YZDx TIL: Complex 8 character passwords aren’t that secure. A password of “B!gt1t$^” would take approx 3 days to crack, but “reddit is for nerds” would take 204 TRILLION years to crack.
jOop TIL there’s a water reservoir in space that is 100,000 times more massive than our sun containing 140 trillion times more water than the oceans
b9eK9 TIL the KKK sent death threats and led boycotts against Johnny Cash in the 1960's. They incorrectly thought his wife at the time was black.