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TIL: Over 35,000 Americans fought for Canada in WWI. There is a monument in Arlington Cemetery dedicated to their fallen.

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N7oO8 TIL that Scheherazade, the storyteller from One Thousand and One Nights tells her stories (Aladdin, Sinbad, ...) to the monarch so that he would stop marrying and killing a new virgin every day after his first wife betrayed him. He had already killed 1001 women when they met.
Q8JL TIL that dogs years are not 7:1 to human years, as it is generally thought.
R7R44 TIL during the 2012 London Olympic NBC aired a promo for the Today Show congratulating Missy Franklin on winning the gold medal in the 100-meter backstroke minutes before the network aired the time-delayed footage of the event.
rJQW TIL After Rat-Packer Sammy Davis Jr died in 1990, his Widow soon discovered that he was nearly broke and owed back taxes. She then had his body exhumed to strip him of the $70,000 worth of jewelry he had been buried with.
1aEB7 TIL that Jon Lovitz slam-dunked Andy Dick’s face into a bar because of their feud regarding Phil Hartman’s death.