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Quilotoa

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  • How about hockey? Yeah, I still don't think we're in the same league. Their high schools have stadiums that would make our universities jealous.

  • Have you ever stopped at a cheesy tourist trap "landmark" that turned out to be kinda cool? What was it?

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  • We went to the Novosibersk (Siberia) winter festival in the main square thinking it would be lame, but it was actually really cool.

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  • This is in Japan. They are respectful of property.

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  • No. It wasn't Pyrex. I didn't realize it wasn't.

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  • Yes. When I was there, I was amazed by the public toilets in Tokyo.

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  • I've heard a U.S. person call another person aggressive as a compliment. In Canada, it's an insult. Also, there are fewer individual rights and more group rights. It's obviously more socialist than the States. Government hospitals, universities and schools. Private schools are rare. Even the Conservative Party supports abortion, same-sex marriage, and universal health care. People are more reserved and more polite.There's a common joke about holding the door open for the next person and saying sorry for everything. We are not as fanatical about sports. We are not really patriotic (unless we are travelling or someone mistakes us for a United Statesian). We are a bit insecure, having lived beside a powerful and dominant country all our lives. People from the U.S. who have moved here have told me there's an absence of a pervasive, background fear that they didn't realize was there until they moved to Canada.

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  • Canada has a fairly stringent immigration pollicy. It's not that easy to move here. Also, you'd probably be surprised how different it is. I've lived in the States, and it took me a while to get used to it. As a tourist, you don't notice it much, but living day to day, attitudes and beliefs are quite different.

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  • It's generally cheaper because the USD is higher. Having said that, it's been about the same exchange rate for the last four years. Though there is a strong anti-US feeling here because of your threats to take us over, you won't see it unless you try to promote Trump or something similar.

  • An AI School, With No Teachers, To Open in Chicago This Fall

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  • That's crazy. I taught elementary. For that you need a Bachelor's that includes enough credits in one subject to be a "teachable," and then two years of teacher's college. In elementary, you teach all the subjects except French. In high school, you need two teachables. Of course, you can be called on to teach a course that isn't one of your teachables, but they try not to. Canada.

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  • I was lab assistant at school. I had to make up a fruit fly medium for a class' genetics experiments. I mixed it up in a 2 liter beaker and put it on heat. It was pyrex. It broke and the medium spread all over the floor. There were fruit flies buzzing around the classroom for the next month no matter how often they washed the floors.

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  • I'm old enough to have seen the advent of computers as a teacher. Immediately, the word was spread that computers would replace teachers. They didn't. With the advent of the internet, again, proponents said it would eliminate teachers. It didn't. The reason almost all attempts failed was because the main purpose of teachers is not to diseminate knowledge. It's to hold accountable, inspire, spark imagination, encourage, make human connections, give emotional support, coach, and teach responsibility. There are some students that will do well in a teacherless classroom. The majority won't.

  • TIL Saint Lucia is the only country named after a woman.

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  • I thought it was named after de nephew.

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  • Their public toilets are immaculate. They have a strong sense of public responsibility.

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  • I don't think the videos would turn out. They'd be overexposed.

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  • I don't think that'll happen in Japan.

  • TIL Saint Lucia is the only country named after a woman.

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  • That's not a country.

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  • Phillipines, Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Colombia, Georgia, El Salvador, Swaziland, Peru, Saint Vincent, San Marino, United States of America, etc. There are 22 countries named after men.

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    Quadruple amputee cornhole player accused of fatally shooting man in Maryland

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  • I did a search. Nothing showed up.

  • Was the world always a fucked up place?

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  • That acounts for 65 of the 300 000 years humans have been alive.

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    TIL that January 1 was chosen as the first day of the year by Julius Caesar as the god Janus (where January got its name) was the god of doors and it made sense that the door was open to the new year.

    www.mentalfloss.com /article/29611/why-does-new-year-start-january-1
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    TIL my dog would probably eat me if I died alone.

    www.popsci.com /science/would-dog-cat-eat-owner/
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    TIL the Sundance Kid lived in Canada for three years

    www.cbc.ca /news/canada/calgary/harry-longabaugh-sundance-kid-alberta-9.6978431
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    TIL that on April 18, 1930, the BBC reported, "There is no news." and then played piano music for the rest of the broadcast time.

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    TIL Benedict Cumberbatch is the third cousin, 16 times removed from King Richard III who he played in a British miniseries.

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Benedict_Cumberbatch
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    'You're going to die in Canada': U.S. suspect charged in cross-border extortion threats

    www.cbc.ca /news/canada/british-columbia/extortion-fbi-suspect-bishnoi-9.7012435
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    How to become a tyrant in 5 steps

    www.cbc.ca /radio/ideas/tyranny-herodotus-authoritarianism-strongman-1.7315510
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    Reddit launches High Court challenge to Australia's social media ban for kids

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/clykk2yrl9ko
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    McDonald's pulls AI-generated Christmas advert following backlash

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/czdgrnvp082o
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    Here's what Canadian provinces are doing with all the US liquor they pulled off shelves

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/cwyp9g7p5p9o
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    TIL there's an International Vinegar Museum

    www.internationalvinegarmuseum.com
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    TIL Europe has an elephant sanctuary.

    www.portugalresident.com /europes-first-elephant-sanctuary-to-open-in-alentejo/
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    TIL there's advent salami.

    podnikovka.cz /uzeniny_c1032041986523153/salamy_c1032041986523167/adventni-salam_p6595
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    TIL there's a green bean casserole flavoured soda drink.

    www.spokesman.com /stories/2004/nov/09/even-the-creators-admit-to-having-questionable/
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    TIL there are search and rescue otters.

    archive.is /TOWrt
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    TIL all blimps are dirigibles, but not all dirigibles are blimps

    www.airships.net /dirigible/
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    TIL John Williams (star wars composer) wrote the original theme song for Gilligan's Island. (and it's calypso!)

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    TIL there's a hotel room designed to look like Goodnight Moon

    www.neatorama.com /2025/11/14/Hotel-Room-Designed-to-Look-Like-Goodnight-Moon/
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    TIL the lighter was invented before the match

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/D%C3%B6bereiner%27s_lamp
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    TIL some traffic lights in Denmark are Viking men

    www.atlasobscura.com /places/viking-traffic-lights