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TIL Since 1961, Parks Canada and the Canadian Armed Forces have partnered to run the world's largest mobile artillery avalanche control program in Glacier National Park

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R5Zr4 TIL that when the Luftwaffe were struggling against the Royal Air Force in WW2, Reichsmarschall Göring asked young flying ace Adolf Galland what was needed to defeat the British pilots. Galland said, "a squadron of Spitfires."