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TIL Fox News is Banned From Canada – Canadian Law Forbids Lying On Broadcast News

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Y7eEv TIL that the Battle of Spioenkop, which took place in South Africa in 1900, saw Winston Churchill couriering messages to the frontlines and Mahatma Ghandi serving as a stretcher-bearer.
XX6D TIL that when you look up at the blue sky and see white dots flying around, you’re actually seeing your own white blood cells.
WkmgL TIL American currency went as high as $10,000, with $5,000, $1,000 and $500 bills also in circulation. They were discontinued in 1969 for “lack of use.”
X0B8k TIL that the biggest margin of defeat in a football (soccer) game was 149 - 0 between AS Adema and SO l'Emyrne. SO l'Emyrne intentionally lost the game to protest against refereeing decisions that went against them previously.
PYvEJ Today I learned that the demand for mummies outstripped supply causing people to make fakes out of newer corpses in order to make a paint called Mummy Brown.