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TIL there is an inland island in Canada that is larger in area than the lake in which it is situated.

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A5Ex TIL of Timothy Tyler who is serving life in prison without parole for mailing 5.2 grams of LSD to a friend.
EvNw TIL that the first black female astronaut, Mae Jemison, was the first real astronaut to appear on Star Trek, went to Stanford at 16, and also studied dance at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
OoxN6 TIL Thomas Jefferson and Zachary Taylor (the 3rd and 12th US presidents) were 12th cousins.
ZpD4p TIL on three occasions between 1922 and 1933, the Coca-Cola Company was offered the opportunity to purchase the Pepsi-Cola Company, which it declined on each occasion
1bn4 TIL The French tried to counter attack Germany in 1939, but were repulsed by “The silent soldier”…“a definitive weapon of the war”. New German mines that would fire themselves out of the ground before going off, wounding not just the soldier, but everybody else around them, as well.