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TIL any American with a DUI charge, no matter how old, will be denied entrance to Canada.

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p8VPA TIL that during Prohibition, the US Congress had their own alcohol bootlegger named George Cassiday who operated for 5 years before being arrested. He delivered 25 orders per day to a private storeroom in the basement of the House Office so he could avoid the Capitol Police.
6E7Em TIL that according to a leaked Warner Bros. receipt, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix lost $167 million USD despite grossing $900 million USD worldwide
7Gm7 TIL Bill Gates received an honorary knighthood from the Queen but as an American Citizen he cannot use the title “Sir”
BBED TIL in 1961 a little girl wrote to President Kennedy concerned about the safety of Santa Claus amid Soviet nuclear testing at the North Pole. Kennedy wrote back that he had spoken to Santa and that he was fine.
DEbr TIL a man was able to steal $10 million because bank employees kept an important code on a post-it on the wall.