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TIL each year Canada Post receives a million letters addressed to “Santa Claus, The North Pole, H0H 0H0”. They reply to every one.

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rRaW0 TIL in Asia, collecting luxury goods is considered a solid investment. Some luxury handbags increase 14.2% in value every year, a significantly higher return than the stock market.
WkZ9o TIL City water supplies in Minneapolis, USA and Warsaw, Poland use a "bio-monitoring system." Consisting of clams and mussels that alert them to pollutants via text message or switches. When the clams close, a spring glued to their head completes a switch and alerts the operators in Warsaw.
5VQpQ TIL beneath the Puerto Rico Trench is a mass so dense it has a gravitational pull on the surface of the ocean, causing it to dip somewhat. The Trench is also associated with the most negative gravity anomaly on earth, -380 milliGal, which indicates the presence of an active downward force.
a8mVN TIL that the Canadian Provinces of Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador have an unresolved border dispute over 180,000 square kilometres. The dispute originated prior to Newfoundland and Labrador joining Canada in 1949, and continues to resurface periodically.
YpPKW TIL: Virtually every country named syphilis after its enemies. The French called it the Neapolitan disease, the English and Italians called it the French disease, Russians called it the Polish disease, Tahitians called it the British disease, and the Japanese called it the Chinese pox.