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TIL the bite in Apples logo was originally meant to hold the letter “a” in Apples old logo

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e0JkJ TIL that Canada has the third-largest oil reserves in the world.
X0P TIL that the estimated costs for the 2012 political campaigns (6 or 7 billion) is almost 3 times the cost of sending the Rover Curiosity to Mars (2.5 billion)
nelA7 TIL a park project in Los Angeles, named Hollywood Central Park, is proposed to be built atop the 101 freeway as a cap, creating 44 acres of recreational land for the community and essentially turning a mile of the freeway below into a tunnel.
e0DXn TIL: As a person quits smoking, residue comes off their lungs and up their nose which now has a heightened sense of smell causing vivid, realistic dreams of smoking
epKRb TIL about Abbess Mariam Soulakiotis or "Mother Rasputin", who was a serial killer active from (1939-1950) she would starve, beat, and condemn victims to tuberculosis-ridden cells. Authorities first arrested her for export of olive oil to Cyprus and the import of tires. Her victim total was 27-177.