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TIL when Newfoundland agreed to be annexed by Canada in 1949, one of the conditions was that Islanders continue to be allowed to produce and sell margarine

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R5Mpa TIL that Klaus Barbie, also known as The Butcher of Lyon, was a Nazi officer during World War II. After the war, United States intelligence services, aided his escape to Bolivia, where he advised the regime on how to repress opposition through torture.
5YZAP TIL: Paris was strictly and island city in the Seine until nearly 1000 AD.
p88M8 TIL that the drone usage in a war goes way back to 1995 and the war in Bosnia
W7ZV9 TIL Traffic in Toronto is so bad, drivers in the GTA lose about 118 hours a year stuck in it.
4XdWa TIL an unmanned Russian spacecraft crashed on the moon on July 21, 1969 - while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were still walking on the surface.