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TIL of Canadian football, a very similar sport to American football only practiced in Canada; the championship game is a huge sports event there

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KYpAw TIL the furthest distance that a lost pet dog has found their way home is about 2,000 miles (3,218 km), which was walked by a dog named Jimpa (from Western Australia to Victoria) in 1979. During Jimpa's 14-month trek home, he managed to negotiate the "almost waterless" Nullarbor Plain.
M9Gb TIL In 2008 a guy named Mike Merrill sold shares of his life for $1 and gives up decisions to his shareholders. He’s up ton $4.50 a share.
XYyj TIL: in 1987, a high school boy triangulated where fantasy author Piers Anthony lived using fictional maps from his novels, ran away from home to live with him & his family, and was welcomed into PA’s home for the day, spent the night there, and PA listened to him for ~4 hours and gave him advice.
x5J1 TIL that in 1140, when the Weibertreu Castle was defeated by King Konrad III, the women of the castle were granted free departure and allowed to take what they could carry. Thinking quickly, the women carried the men on their backs. The king kept his word and let the men live.
Oolvg TIL In the 1950s the CIA made a fake sex tape featuring the president of Indonesia in an attempt to destroy his career.