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TIL Canada made an actual flying saucer during the cold war

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epNJ5 TIL that the Finnish children’s book Hippu (1967) became so popular in Japan that its author, Oili Tanninen, wrote four sequels—exclusively in Japanese—for publisher Kodansha. Strangely, these books were never translated into Finnish until 2021.
x6Zv5 TIL US Navy’s tried to use pigeon to pilot bomb using grain of food sticked to boat images
Lkl9Z TIL that Jimmy Carter's siblings and father all died of Pancreatic Cancer, with all of his siblings dying within 7 years of one another.
XEV7k TIL Liechtenstein's flag was once identical to Haiti's, but Liechtenstein did not realize this until delegations from the two countries met at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Liechtenstein added a crown to their flag in 1937 in response.
e0VND TIL Small penises where consonant with Greek ideals of male beauty, while big penises were considered vulgar