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TIL the new Canadian 100 dollar bill smells like maple syrup
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TIL when Ford introduced the Mustang, they were expecting to sell about 100,000 a year. Over a million Mustangs were sold within the first two years.
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TIL Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, married a fellow cosmonaut, and they had a daughter, Elena. Elena became the first person to have both parents that have been to outer space.
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TIL that the rate at which we process visual information slows down over time, and this is what makes time ‘speed up’ as we grow older.
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TIL A monkey was electrocuted as it walked on high tension wires in India's railway station, falling unconscious on to the tracks. Another fellow monkey attempted to resuscitate the animal by repeatedly biting, hitting and dunking him in water. The electrocuted monkey was eventually revived.
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TIL of the Saola, or Asian Unicorn, a bovine so rare it has been photographed in the wild only 4 times. When it was discovered in 1992 it was the first large mammal to be defined in over half a century.