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TIL that Canada now has higher property and violent crime rates than the United States of America.

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GA7x7 TIL about an obscure Egyptian god named Medjed. The only god depicted as forward facing and having 2 eyes. He also bizarrely gained popularity on the Japanese internet shortly after his discovery.
j6xvp TIL The American Red Cross provided free donuts during WWII to US Soldiers until the Secretary of War asked them to charge after complaints from their British counterparts, who had to pay for their snacks.
XpaD TIL Pareidolia is a type of illusion or misperception involving a vague or obscure stimulus being perceived as something clear and distinct. For example, in the discolorations of a burnt tortilla one sees the face of Jesus.
j6jBN TIL that All of Earth's water—including oceans, icecaps and glaciers, lakes, rivers, groundwater, and water in the atmosphere—equals ~326 quintillion gallons (326,000,000,000,000,000,000). Of that, a tiny fraction, 37.5 quadrillion gallons, is in the atmosphere above us as water vapor.
N716Q TIL on 1956, to fight school integration, Mississippi repealed its compulsory attendance law