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TIL It took Quebec until 2006 to pay off its debt from hosting the 1976 Summer Olympics

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dDYQ9 TIL humans have anywhere between 22-33 senses, not just 5, including the sense of balance, temperature, and even the sense of passing time
loeP1 TIL that a straight-line tornado is called a derecho.
e0brb TIL Bogotá, Colombia, serves also as a capital of the Cundinamarca Department, even if legally it's not part of Cundinamarca
lwG1 TIL that Japan had a monster-collecting card game in the Edo Period (1603-1868)
lMVA TIL that Humble Oil, which would later become Exxon Mobil, advertised that it sold enough energy in a day to melt 7 million tons of glacier.