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TIL that the busiest highway in North America is the Toronto section of Highway 401 in Canada

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7Ggr TIL that Christopher Columbus, on the way to the New World, was stranded in Jamaica in 1503 A.D. Knowing that he was wearing out his welcome with the natives and that a lunar eclipse was near, Columbus warned the natives that moon would vanish if they did not continue to feed him and his sailors.
bea TIL that on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, the British lost 57,000 soldiers. For comparison, the US only lost 58,000 during the ENTIRE vietnam war.
vPGRK TIL the longest word in the English dictionary: Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Defined as: it as "a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine ash and sand dust"
rN0y1 TIL the Soviet Union nearly launched a nuclear attack on China in 1969, only the intervention of the United States stopped them
MeQBA TIL that following the 2010 Olympics, a sled dog tour company based out of Whistler sought a veterinarian to euthanize 56 dogs because of a downturn in business. When the vet refused to kill healthy animals, an employee shot them “execution-style” or slit their throats.