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TIL football, baseball, basketball and hockey were all invented by Canadians.

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8w4P TIL that Nestlé is draining developing countries to produce its bottled water, destroying countries’ natural resources before forcing its people to buy their own water back.
ELo0 TIL that a woman named Claire, was at a garage sale, when she decided on buying an old card table. After bargaining the price down to $25, she took it. She later found out that it was one of 6 tables left in the world by furniture makers John Seymour & Son. It later sold at an auction for $541,000.
yQanp TIL of the battle of Cable Street in 1936. Where people of London's East End, who stood up and stopped Edward Moseley's Black shirts from parading through London's largely Jewish East end. It lead to the public order act banning political uniforms
5bLk TIL that writer Walt Whitman volunteered during the American Civil War by writing countless letters on behalf of soldiers, some of whom were illiterate or were dying, back home to their loved ones
nWXOY TIL Rwanda, East Africa, leads the entire world for the most women in government. In 2008 it became the first nation on earth to have a female majority government - and, since then, the country has maintained the figure at an approximately 60% majority...