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TIL licence plates in the Canadian Northwest Territories are shaped like polar bears.

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gMBxb TIL radioactivity was discovered accidentally due to bad weather. H. Becquerel stopped his experiments on uranium that required sunlight in an overcast day and put uranium crystals and photographic plates away in a drawer. When he opened the drawer, he discovered the radioactive nature of uranium.
j69Nj TIL that the US has a national cycling route network, the United States Bicycle Route System. It consists of interstate long-distance cycling routes with off-road paths, bicycle lanes, and low-traffic roads.
R71ml TIL The birthday-number effect is the subconscious tendency of people to prefer the numbers in the date of their birthday over other numbers. First reported in 1997 by Japanese psychologists Shinobu Kitayama and Mayumi Karasawa, the birthday-number effect has been replicated in various countries. ????
d86Md TIL That other countries don't know about Australia's obsession for the 1973 Ike and Tina Turner song Nutbush City Limits it's so popular that there is a national dance that every student is forced to learn at school
wLp5o TIL that the US conducted experiments on their own troops by race back in WW2