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

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ZpR74 TIL that Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire
kO8e1 TIL in the year 2000 a new type of ant was found in the Amazon. It was so unlike anything previously recorded that it was not only recognized as a new species, it also became the sole member of a new genus, AND subfamily.
8ewXa TIL Bram Stoker (of Dracula fame) also wrote a collection of children's stories. Critics of the time called them "morbid"
v1ZvB TIL that in 2015 an entomologist allowed two botflies to develop to maturity in his skin, because "being a male, this was my only chance to produce another being out of my flesh and blood"
R5wG8 Today I learned that most of the famous silver drachma coins of Alexander the Great were made out of captured Persian silver