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TIL; Admission to Canada’s nation parks is free all of 2017 because it’s Canada’s 150th year celebration

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omAo TIL the Dream Team of 1992 received death threats in Barcelona. Charles Barkley walked around the city alone despite the threats, and when asked where his bodyguards were, he held up his fists and answered, “This is my security.”
OoxxL TIL that the official pronunciation (per NIST) for the prefix Giga is with a soft G. For example, Gigabyte is pronounced "Jigabyte" not "Gigabyte".
5m6p TIL In Japan, houses depreciate like cars, and after as little as 20 years are considered worthless enough to be demolished and replaced.
JvGj TIL that in 2002, a 15 year old boy inspired by 9/11, stole an airplane and flew it into a skyscraper in Tampa, Florida. It damaged one office room and he was the only person that died.
vw0K TIL every Google Maps street view of a KFC blurs the face of Colonel Sanders due to Google’s security policy that every human’s face gets blurred.