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TIL "pre-Viking" Europeans may have started settlements in Canada before 1000AD

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e0JkJ TIL that Canada has the third-largest oil reserves in the world.
9YnaM TIL that in 1950, Venezuela had the fourth-highest GDP per capita in the world. They had a higher GDP per capita than Canada.
rRVGd TIL in 1898, some 73% of Alabama's entire annual state revenue came from convict leasing.
jNVZE TIL that in 1946, a trapped moth caused a malfunction in the early computer which resulted in the term 'bug' to be coined for all software errors.
0KRL TIL that all US Presidents, but one, share the ancestor King John Lackland who signed the Magna Carta in 1215.