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TIL Folding 1000 paper cranes was a requirement for Japan's Astronaut Program.

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8yVK TIL that Norway is ranked as the country least likely to be affected by climate change. Chad is the most vulnerable.
9YJEX TIL In 2010, a thief broke into the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris and stole five paintings worth €100 million ( $123 million USD). Pierre Cornette de Saint-Cyr, commented, "These five paintings are unsellable, so thieves, sirs, you are imbeciles, now return them." The art has not been recovered.
4XPkg TIL that Q is the only letter that isn't in any US state's name.
R7LN6 TIL that "no animals were harmed during the making of this film" only counts intentional harm for the camera. The movie could still have accidental injury and death.
YRYv TIL that when Pope John Paul II visited Chile, he asked a crowd of tens of thousands to refuse greed and consumerism –to which they replied «yes», to reject the idol of power, «yes», but when he asked them to reject the idol of «sex and pleasure», the whole stadium replied an outright «NO!»