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TIL Nunavut has the lowest graduation rate in Canada and a student from Qikiqtarjuaq became the first high schooler to graduate in four years in 2016

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9PD TIL that athletes can compete as independent Olympians (not under a country’s flag) at the Olympic Games
KO8VB TIL tibetans have more than twice the amount of forearm blood flow due to sharing more than 6% of their genes from Denisova hominins
APEg TIL Mark Ruffalo was placed on US terrorism watchlist in 2010 for standing against natural gas drilling
oRkNL TIL writer James Clavell was captured on Java in 1942 and sent to a Japanese POW camp, where he was feed a quarter of a pound (110 g) of rice per day, one egg per week and occasional vegetables.
RJw TIL that for 20 years the tallest “hotel” in the world was a 105-story empty pyramid in North Korea.