/r/todayilearned
TIL As a British colony in the 1870s, Prince Edward Island was first promoted as a place to get away from the high-pressured society of North America. Many Americans saw Canada as a foreign land that resembled the old country of England but without the bustle
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TIL in 2014, the owner of Samuel's Sweet Shop died and his family struggled to keep the store open. So the owners friends, Actors Paul Rudd (Ant Man) and Jeffery Dean Morgan (The Walking Dead) bought it and have been co-owners ever since
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TIL that Agatha Christie kept her final Poirot novel locked away in a bank vault for 30 years. And it's currently on free display at Cambridge University
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TIL that in 1990 an unemployed French nuclear physicist named André Gardes, who believed he was the rightful holder of the Seigneur's title, attempted to single handedly invade the Isle of Sark
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TIL That for 40 years the Olympics included an arts competition: awarding medals for lyric and epic poetry
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TIL Dr. Patricia Bath invented the Laserphaco Probe, which restored sight to millions of individuals suffering from cataracts. Her many firsts include being the first African American to complete an ophthalmology residency and the first African-American female doctor to get a medical patent.
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TIL A tablespoon of our sun weighs about 5 pounds. A tablespoon of Neutron Star (a massive star 10x larger than our sun that has run out of fuel, collapsed, exploded, and collapsed some more) would weigh 1 billion tons- the weight of Mount Everest.
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TIL Aristotle founded the Peripatetic school of philosophy in 335 BCE and many of the free lectures were open to the general public. He liked to walk around while holding discussions with students and it had no set curriculum or even fees for membership
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