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TIL that Oreos in Canada are made with coconut oil, which apparently gives them a different taste than their US counterparts.

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neaaY TIL that in Denmark, they assess fines for drunk driving as follows: (blood alchohol percentage) x 10 x (monthly salary).
8aY5L TIL that one quarter of our bones are located in our feet. Each foot has 26 bones
V5e8 TIL after the release of Gayla Peevey’s “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas” (1953) a campaign was launched to give her a hippopotamus for Christmas. The campaign succeeded & she was presented with an actual hippopotamus, which she donated to the city zoo. The hippopotamus lived for nearly 50 years
WkmEB TIL: Microsoft implemented an underwater datacenter, 117 deep into the seafloor. The datacenter was proven to be more reliable than the ones on land as it was isolated from humidity, temperature fluctuations and human accidents.
p8GWp TIL that the makers of SPAM sued Jim Henson Productions for using the name "Spa'am" for a pig character. A judge dismissed the suit, and noted that "one might think Hormel (the maker) would welcome the association with a genuine source of pork."