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TIL that over 10% of Canada’s population are descended from impoverished British children that were sent to work on Canadian farms between 1869 and 1939.

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epwaL TIL There are fossilised plants in Greenland under 1.4 km of ice.
xOjB TIL that the film version of “Fahrenheit 451” has spoken opening credits in keeping with the film’s story of a world without reading matter.
vP0vx TIL of a research which states that speed-watching of online materials positively impacts the comprehension of those materials.
kJBaW TIL that former First Lady Edith Bolling Wilson is a direct descendant of Pocahontas.