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TIL although New Brunswick is the only official bilingual province in Canada, the most bilingual province is Quebec (55% of bilingual Canadians) whose only official language is French

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8aGeX TIL that Yale graduate William Chester Minor, who became one of the largest contributors for the compiling of the Oxford English Dictionary by providing usages of words from his antiquated book collection, was a clinically insane murderer who cut off his own penis.
KOKJB TIL Louise Fletcher (Nurse Ratchet in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) was so upset that the other actors could laugh and be happy while she had to be so cold and heartless that near the end of production she removed her dress and stood in only her panties to prove she was not a cold-hearted monster
P17kO TIL: There was a study on in China that explores why the 317 million female gamers there made otome (romance) games popular. The results show it was due to strong parasocial interactions led to more romantic feelings towards the fictional characters among under 30 yo females.
QJjRa TIL about the Abbeville Institute, an institution of Southern professors that extol the virtues of the Confederacy. Their leader is tied to the League of the South, a white nationalist group.
d8Omr TIL Abraham Lincoln's family line is believed to have gone extinct in 1985 after the death of his last great-grandson. While other relatives exist, no direct descendants of the former president are alive today.