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TIL 77% of Canadian women have a tertiary education.

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RkNw TIL there is a theoretical transatlantic tunnel that would allow for a 54 minute trip between New York and London.
VMJLp TIL that neanderthals could interbreed with modern humans, and around 66% of East Asians and about 70% of Europeans share genes with them
xVm1 TIL that in ancient Greece throwing an apple at someone was considered a marriage proposal.
JYgv4 TIL Australian physician Barry Marshall was awarded a Nobel prize for infecting himself with bacterium Helicobacter pylori to show that it caused stomach ulcers, after he was ridiculed and declined funding for his hypothesis that bacteria could survive in acidic conditions
VMLVZ TIL of Eben Grumpy of Iowa who was a little slow in paying John Sputter $30 he owed him. Sputter threatened to sue, so Grumpy painted a check on a door and dropped it on him from a third-story window next time he came over. A court ruled the door was legal payment.