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TIL: Canada has a desert - Columbia Plateau

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wLQxo TIL the average person eats more than 7,000 calories on Christmas Day, according to a study done by Associated British Foods
EggQw TIL Canada once had a ‘Exotic Dancer Visa Program’ where foreign women can enter the country to strip. Human traffickers took advantage of this..
vPPlB TIL of Brucellosis, a disease that spreads by eating or even just inhaling bacteria from infected animals or unpasteurized dairy products. It has many symptoms, from joint pain to liver damage to depression, and was the first disease ever weaponized by the United States for bio-warfare.
1aLx8 Today I Learned an ultra-rare species of blue bees has recently been redicovered after missing for 4 years. They are hyper-local species and only live around an isolated patch of sand dunes along the central Florida ridge. Before 2020, they were last seen in 2016.
B6d TIL that a high school girl became the first person to fold paper in half 12 times. She also derived the mathematical equation that describes the limit of paper folding