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TIL former NFL quarterback Jon Kitna teaches high school algebra and helps turn around troubled students in what’s being called “the Kitna effect”

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epKZD [TIL] The Province of Canada moved its capital six times between 1841-1867 before permanently locating to Ottawa in 1865. Kingston (Ontario) was first, Quebec City and Toronto both hosted it twice and Montreal once (until the buildings were burnt down in riots in 1849).
69M5X TIL that those oxygen masks that come down inside airplanes are connected to individual “chemical oxygen generators” rather than a supply of oxygen gas
7XbZ TIL that Yukon Cornelius, the prospector from Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, wasn’t searching for “silver and gold” but a peppermint mine.
P15jn TIL that Egyptian pyramid builders were paid in beer
ANN0n TIL of the 1967 novel "Bear", a Canadian novel about a women who has a sexual relationship with a bear. It sold a million copies.