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Today I learned that Canada is the slightest bit larger than the U.S.

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VBQBk TIL more than 140 home runs have been "splash hits" since San Francisco's Oracle Park opened in 2000, 35 of those by Barry Bonds alone. At PNC Park in Pittsburgh, Josh Bell homered into the Allegheny twice in one month.
jNyaj TIL of the amazing and fearless POW dog Judy, who uplifted and protected British prisoners captured by the Japanese during WW2. She skirted death multiple times and survived the war. Her “master” built her a granite memorial inscribed with her life story when she died of old age
awdaJ TIL That there is a 2 km Tunnel in Mauritania Known as the "Monument to European Stupidity in Africa." It Exists Only Because Spain and France Couldn't Come to an Agreement Over a Railway Built Across Open Desert
BgwVx TIL how devastating windows are to birds
0Z1M TIL Carter G. Woodson created Negro History Week with hope it eventually be eliminated when black history became fundamental to American history. Instead it eventually became Black History Month, and critics include Morgan Freeman, who said “Black history is American history.”