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TIL Canadians have innovative and fun ways to enjoy winter :)!

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vMYD TIL that, in 1955, someone dropped a 600+ year-old plaster statue of Buddha, only to discover after some of the plaster chipped off, that the statue was actually solid gold.
9Ywyp TIL that expiration dates on bottled water is for the bottle and not for the water in it.
pAp8 TIL A researcher once played a recording of an elephant who had died. The sound was coming from a speaker hidden in a thicket. The family went wild calling, looking all around. The dead elephant’s daughter called for four days afterward.
jNmlE TIL that the Vikings were seducing European women at such an alarming rate that Christian scholars even complained about their clean ways from regular baths and combed beards: the church even outlawed public bathing.
LkO5r TIL there are thousands of U.S. areas affected by high levels of lead that are worse than Flint, Michigan