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TIL that federal law in Canada states that a beer pint is 20oz, instead of an American 16oz pint, and the government asks for violators to be reported

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nWppB TIL Gordon Ramsay robbed the restaurant that he was working in and framed his mentor Marco Pierre White so that they wouldn’t hire him to replace Ramsay.
GeN4 TIL that Poet Stanislaw Jerzy Lec survived a German concentration camp by killing his guard with a shovel that was given to him to dig his own grave – and then escaping in the guards uniform.
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loG8B TIL that CT body scans expose the patient to the same amount of radiation as that experienced within a mile and a half of the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
8ZPZ TIL of the XF-84H “Thunderscreech”, an experimental propeller aircraft whose rotors moved at supersonic speeds and created continuous sonic booms visible from hundreds of yards away which were powerful enough to cause severe nausea, headaches, and even knock people to the ground.