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TIL in Quebec Canada babies come with manuals.

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9Y1yQ TIL that "Creep" by Radiohead was banned by the BBC in 1992 for being too depressing
XEAYP TIL that a study from 2011-2015 of 160,000 adults from 31 countries concluded that teens who had lower levels of secondary education but who came from homes filled with books became as literate, numerate and technologically apt in adulthood as university graduates who grew up with only a few books.
YnAA TIL there is a mid-rise shopping center in Zimbabwe which uses an air conditioning system inspired by African termite hills. It is ventilated and cooled by natural means, and uses less than 10% of the energy of a conventional building its size.
VDB8 TIL that only about 1% out of 1.25 billion people in India pay taxes
JYVol TIL: Éamon De Valera, leader of the Irish Free State negotiated the return of three "Treaty" Ports, conceded to Britain in 1921, under the oral agreement that if war were to come, Britain would have access to them. When war came, De Valera denied Britain access to the Ports under Irish neutrality