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TIL that Canada has bagel shops that run 24/7.

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JYArm TIL the oldest monument in Paris is over 3,000 years old. The Ottoman ruler of Egypt gave a 75 ft, 250 ton ancient Egyptian obelisk to France in exchange for a mechanical clock in 1833. The obelisk was placed in the center of the Place de la Concorde where it stands today.
QNk06 TIL that the son of the victim of Indian actor Salman Khan's drunk hit-and-run has stated that he still watches his movies.
wLLZ6 TIL that "The unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of writer's block" is the shortest academic article ever: it has no words
xVwk5 TIL that for The Mandalorian opening theme music composer Ludwig Goransson bought a set of (flute) Recorders because he wanted to step away from computers when he began the Mandalorian project
698YZ TIL in March 1945 there was a "reverse D-Day", where Nazi soldiers isolated on the english Channel Islands briefly landed in liberated Granville, France, bringing back prisoners and supplies