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TIL that Julius Caesar was never actually an emperor

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LM9Z TIL nearly 10% of Canadians have had sex in a canoe
grQXy TIL that a drug used to treat rare genetic disorders in humans can also kill malaria mosquitoes simply by contact, disrupting their metabolism after a blood meal, even in insecticide-resistant strains
MEaV TIL Dwight D. Eisenhower said “The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants…It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals…We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.”
OPlL TIL a man turned himself in to the police after his computer was infected with ransomware that displayed a fake FBI warning accusing him of possessing child pornography, because he actually had a hard drive full of child pornography and thought he had been caught.
PVyV TIL that in 1996, a man was flying a remote-controlled model plane in Dublin when the receiver died. The plane continued with no guidance for 5 miles, then ran out of fuel and glided to a stop on the runway of Dublin Airport.