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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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Z8kyo TIL We are designed to create stories as soon as we have enough informations available. The heider-Simmel illusion is a perfect example of it, as we only see triangles, lines and a circle, but still understand it as "a good one helping a circle to escape from the bad triangle after a fight".
DmWg TIL in 1941 the world’s largest seed bank (created by botanist Nikolai Vavilov) was housed in Leningrad. As the Germans surrounded the city forcing mass starvation, Vavilov’s scientists refused to eat from the collection, slowly dying of hunger as they maintained 16 rooms of edible plants.
Rjaj TIL that in Ontario, Canada there is a law stating saying “sorry” is not an admissions of guilt.
XEgWr TIL that farmers put colored pigment on the chests of rams so that they can tell which ewes have mated by the pigment on their backs
Oon4a TIL A Russian family survived 40 years in the Siberian wilderness cut off from all human contact, unaware of WWII