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TIL That the 8th season of Big Brother Canada was ended prematurely due to the pandemic. All the remaining contestants were sent home early and the prize money was donated to a relief charity.

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VMawp TIL of the Winterberg tunnel; which , during WW1 was sealed shut by French artillery fire trapping the 270 German soldier inside. Over the next six days, as oxygen ran out, they either suffocated or took their own lives. Some asked comrades to kill them. The tunnel has just been discovered.
ERgP TIL There’s an organization called “419 Eaters” that is dedicated to wasting the scammers’ time by pretending to fall for their scams.
ovAW TIL The iPhone is the 2nd best selling product of all time, second only to the Rubik’s Cube.
0wXQv TIL in 1959, Prince Edward County, Virginia decided to close its entire public school system rather than integrate black children into their schools. It then created all-white private schools funded by state tuition grants and county tax credits. Many black children had no education for 5 years.
mx5ev TIL there is a copy of the Qur'an written in Saddam Hussein's blood which he had commissioned for his 60th birthday. Over the course of 2 years he provided up to 57 pints of his blood to complete the 336,000+ words that make up the text