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TIL In 1847, with a population of just 20,000 people, Toronto took in 38,560 Irish famine victims

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5VxWn Today I Learned Schweppes, the Oldest Soft Drinks Company on the World, was the Official Drink of the Great Exhibition of 1851, Held at the Crystal Palace, in Hyde Park, London.
gMdgy TIL People in the final stages of hypothermia engage in "paradoxical undressing" because, as they lose rationality and their nerves are damaged, they feel incredibly, irrationally hot. They strip off their clothes to cool themselves down as they are freezing to death and then start burrowing.
QNoL TIL Disney’s animated film “Mars Needs Moms” is the biggest box office bomb in history
BEQr TIL SR-71 Blackbird pilots where tasked to fly over foreign ceremonies to lay down a sonic boom when heads of state were greeting each other. Just to remind them that what they were doing was against US policy.
YGQW TIL in 2000 german satire magazine “Titanic” succesfully bribed the FIFA with “A fine basket with specialties from the black forest” in exchange for their support of the German bid for the 2006 FIFA World Cup.