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TIL of The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist where three men they stole 2,700 tons of syrup worth $18 million from a warehouse in Quebec

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E1Qwx TIL on the same day Carol Greider was notified she had won the Nobel Prize of Medicine in 2009, funding for her grant proposal on the very subject she won the Prize for was rejected and deemed, in her words, "not worthy for discussion" less than 3 hours later.
nZMr TIL Australia’s first police force was comprised of the best-behaved convicts
9YjlD TIL that the Gulf of Mexico has a dead zone: an area of hypoxic (less than 2 ppm dissolved oxygen) waters, which supports fewer organisms and has been linked to massive fish kills and can cover up to 6,000-7,000 square miles (9656-11265 square kilometers) at the mouth of the Mississippi River
QldL TIL in Curling, custom dictates that after every match, the winners buy losers a round of drinks