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TIL Ball’s Pyramid is the tallest volcanic stack in the world.

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neMn9 TIL it has been 27 years since a Canadian team has won the Stanley cup. With the Montreal Canadiens in 1993. The last opportunity a Canadian team had to win the cup was in 2011, when the Vancouver Canucks lost in game 7 to the Boston Bruins.
7r4Gb TIL that motorcycle world champion, Barry Sheene, enjoyed smoking so much that he had a hole drilled through the chin-bar on his full-face helmet allowing him to smoke right up to the start of a race. He died aged 52 from cancer of the oesophagus and stomach.
EQJx TIL A group of High School student from Coronado Ca became the West Costs largest drug smuggling operation in the 70’s and 80’s with the help of their High School Spanish teacher.
b64M9 TIL boiling water can remove microplastics
Z8Rlo TIL Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron is the largest freshwater island in the world. Covering 2,766 square kilometres or 0.0003% of Canada's landmass.