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TIL that the nation referred to in the National Hockey League (NHL), is actually Canada, not the US.

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8eJQX TIL that the 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake moved Japan’s main island of Honshu eastward by eight feet and dropped 400km of coastline by two feet.
vPB0x TIL that Canola is actually a contraction of "Canadian Oil, Low Acid"
X0DmE TIL cows have best friends and they tend to experience lower levels of stress when they’re hanging out with them.
W7QNd TIL about the ghost ship SS Baychimo, who was abandoned in 1931 and expected to sink, but she didn't sink and kept popping up, last seen in 1969 she could still be sailing around out there.
VMRBG TIL that Robert E. Lee greduated second in his class from the United States Military Academy. More impressive however, is that he recived no demerts his entire time there. To this day, that has never been matched.