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Today I learned about Operation Yellow Ribbon, a Canadian response to 9/11 and the support to the American people during a tragic point in history

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8evAa TIL that not only does the Mediterranean Sea have Great White sharks, but that historically they were some of the biggest every caught.
Yv9A TIL Sir Ian McKellen was born at the start of WWII with the war having a lasting impact on him in his young age - “only after peace resumed … did I realise that war wasn’t normal”
wpQJ TIL In 2011, people playing Foldit, an online puzzle game about protein folding, resolved the structure of an enzyme that causes an Aids-like disease in monkeys. Researchers had been working on the problem for 13 years. The gamers solved it in three weeks.
mxKBy TIL MTV's famous "Video Vanguard Award" was renamed in honor of Michael Jackson because he was jealous that the 1989 award had gone to Madonna instead of him.