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TIL all provinces in Canada have banned expiry dates on gift certificates

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AD5Bd TIL that The word epic is derived from the Ancient Greek adjective, “epikos”, which means a poetic story.
MejJ7 TIL that Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, the actor of Shang Tsung in the Mortal Kombat movies, is a legal citizen of Japan, America, Russia, and is fluent in English, Japanese, Spanish, Hawaiian, and Korean.
9Yw56 TIL one gallon of horseshoe crab blood sells for $60,000 on the world market.
MePAA TIL of the Gnostic Gospels. Discovered in Nag Hammadi, Egypt in 1945, these texts carry non-canonical stories of Jesus from the perspectives of Mary Magdalene, Judas, Thomas and others.
yQVEe TIL a family's home was burned to the ground on Christmas Eve 1945. The parents and four children escaped unharmed. Five other children of theirs were trapped in upstairs bedrooms and presumably perished, but no remains were ever found and the search for the missing children continued for decades.