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TIL Tim Hortons created a new donut based off last nights episode of how I met your mother.

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aD4N TIL that in 1930, the US developed and approved a plan to declare war on the UK and invade Canada. It was shelved in 1939 due to the outbreak of WWII, but wasn’t declassified until 1974.
GvRj TIL the Grasshopper mouse is a carnivorous rodent that dines on worms, scorpions, snakes, and even other mice. It also “stalks its prey in the manner of a cat, sneaking up quietly, and defends its territory by ‘howling’ like a small wolf.”
v1VG7 TIL farming in Japan is done mostly by senior citizens -- 63.5% of farmers are older than 65
KYBJa TIL Emily Rosa at age nine became the youngest person to have a research paper published in a peer reviewed medical journal. She devised a single-blind protocol to determine if therapeutic touch practitioners could actually detect "human energy fields." She found they were right only 44% of the time
gMQ98 TIL That The Furniture Industry On Avg. Has A Markup Between 200% - 400%