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TIL that California has a higher population than the entirety of Canada.

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45rX TIL of the Ket language. Spoken by 200 people in central Siberia north of Mongolia, it is considered to be in the same language family as Navajo. That would make Ket speakers the only remaining members in Eurasia of the original population that colonized the Americas.
9Ynx7 TIL Bob Kulick, the person who wrote ‘Sweet Victory’ for SpongeBob, died at 70 back in may.
W77wN TIL that there are roughly eight-hundred-quadrillion times more ways to shuffle a deck of cards than atoms on Earth
BrKXW No, you didn't win a gift card and no we aren't running a contest/giveaway of any kind. It's a scam.
yAjp TIL in the 18th century, stage actor Robert “Romeo” Coates was so bad, yet self-assured with his acting, that theaters would sell out from sheer curiosity. He’d often act out dramatic death scenes multiple times, frighten Juliet, and once came back on stage with a crowbar to pry open Capulet’s tomb.