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TIL that a single billionaire family, the Irvings, has control over basically the entire Canadian province of New Brunswick, including all its newspapers, as well as the oil, shipping, forestry, construction, and real estate industries

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4XMr5 TIL there's a fear of long words and it's name is hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
60K8 TIL Wal-Mart had to apologize in 2006 for their website recommending “Martin Luther King: I Have A Dream/Assassination of MLK” as a similar item when customers searched for “Planet of the Apes”
8aKXL TIL that for several years Uganda has had the highest alcohol consumption per capita in the world. Ugandan's drink of choice was created specifically protest British colonial law.
9w6pQ TIL that Albert I, King of the Belgians (b. 1875, r. 1909-1934) commanded the Belgian Army from the front during WWI, while his wife Elisabeth worked as a frontline nurse and their 12 year old son Leopold enlisted as a private and fought in the ranks
kO7jB TIL only two known Titanic survivors saw the Cameron movie, but there were 6 alive on its release.