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TIL: Canada has a desert - Columbia Plateau

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NX7v1 TIL that when a British person is eating a flapjack, they are essentially eating heavily sweetened granola bars. In America, flapjacks is just another word for pancakes.
loAP1 TIL The British army breaks step when crossing bridges. This is because in 1831 a suspension bridge collapsed from all the soldiers marching in unison.
4XQ1b TIL the reason truck drivers always twist their tie down straps. It prevents wind induced oscillation which causes fraying of the straps and can quickly damage the cargo being tied down.
N7llP TIL that square-round ice cream cartons are called "Squrounds"
Qyr6 TIL the famous Bloop sound, once thought to come from an unknown marine animal, was recently attributed by NOAA to icebergs cracking.