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TIL that zero Canadian banks failed during the Great Depression

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Lk760 TIL the new Air Force One aircraft are 747's that were built and flight-tested for a Russian airline
roEd TIL that a DNA study shows that the entire indigenous population in the New World before 1492 might have been descendants of only 70 people who crossed the Beringia before the Ice Age ended
4XKNR TIL that the Oxford English Dictionary has included the informal use of the word "literally" in its official definition since 2011, and that use of the word "literally" to mean "figuratively" has been documented as far back as 250 years.
wk6P TIL The movie script for “Thirteen” was written in six days and was originally intended to be a comedy.
w1DP TIL that human feces is not made primarily of undigested plant material or fiber, as commonly thought. Bacteria make up to 60% of the dry mass of human feces.