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TIL that Australia's Parliamentary Entitlements Act 1990 entitles ALL Australians to a free portrait of the Queen

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KVdR TIL The Woman of Seine was the unknown woman whose body was pulled out of the Seine River.A post-mortem pathologist at the morgue was so taken by her beauty that he made a plaster cast death mask of her face.Now that mask is used as the face of the CPR mannequin and is the most kissed face on earth.
a8kWL TIL The poverty rate in Canada was 8.1% in 2020, down from 14.5% in 2015.
a8r69 TIL that Keith Hernandez testified before a federal grand jury in September 1985 that an estimated 40 percent of MLB players used cocaine. Even the Pittsburgh Pirates mascot, the Pirate Parrott, was implicated for buying cocaine.
p8r9O TIL That it is illegal to wear swimming shorts in public swimming pools in France. Stated for hygiene it is compulsory for men to wear speedos.
M7kjK TIL Michael J. Fox and food writer Michael Pollan are brothers in law. Fox has been married to Pollan's sister Tracy since 1988.