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TIL that over 56% of the world’s coastline is in Canada
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TIL the Canadian tuxedo refers to a denim double breasted jacket and matching jeans created by Levi's for Bing Crosby. Levi's was inspired in 1951 when Crosby was nearly escorted off a hotel's premises during a hunting trip in Canada because he and his hunting buddies were wearing denim
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TIL a Revolutionary-era wooden ship was found on the site of the World Trade Center during excavations after 9/11
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TIL in Taiwan, recipes are also free tickets for a lottery drawing held by the government every 2 months. The grand prize is NT$10 million (over 300,000 USD).
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TIL B-17 crews in WWII were volunteers, they could quit flying at any time. They had some of the highest casualty rates of any service in the war yet thousands continued to fly.
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TIL the only animal considered to display true tripedalism (moving using 3 limbs) is the parrot. Specifically, their head is considered their third limb while climbing