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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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P1YLE TIL the Gulf Cartel criminal organization is currently headquartered in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, a town directly across the U.S. border from Brownsville, Texas.
8onV TIL that author Anaïs Nin juggled two husbands (one in NY, one in LA) who only knew of each other after her death. To maintain the double life, she kept a “lie box” containing two sets of prescriptions and chequebooks in different names.
b6yyp TIL that the Manhattan Project produced a short book on how to build an atomic bomb. "The Los Alamos Primer" is 24 pages and completely declassified. Freeman Dyson wrote that the guide should not have been published, because it tells readers that "bomb designing is fun".
R5Dg6 TIL that Polycoria is an extremely rare medical condition characterised by multiple pupils in one eye
9wQ7 TIL that in Star-Wars, all lightsabers were supposed to be White, the Blue / Red distinction was made during post-production.