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TIL there is a Mount Kennedy in Canada, named after the president JFK a year after his assassination. Canada selected it because it was close to the US-Canada border and it serves as a symbol of the two nations' friendship.

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P1exG TIL because of tidal forces, the moon completes one revolution every 655 hours. So one "side" of the Moon is always facing the Earth, and the other "side" is always facing away from the Earth. On the surface of the Moon, you would experience 327.5 hours of sunlight and 327.5 hours of darkness.
m46R TIL that Walmart hasn’t paid A $7,000 fine for the 2008 Black Friday trampling death
aw1JL TIL about Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, a Mexican drug lord who escaped from one of Mexico's highest security prisons by having his goons dig a mile long tunnel to his cell, taking over a year.
0d6Bj TIL there is an abandoned 3.5km (2.2 mi) underground airbase in Croatia, the largest military project of the former Yugoslavia.
61AX TIL to stop piracy Sony BMG distributed a rootkit program through CDs which created vulnerabilities in OS which were exploited by malware. Facing criticisms, they released an “uninstaller” which only un-hid the program and introduced further security vulnerabilities.