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TIL that Canada didn’t gain FULL sovereignty from the UK until 1982.

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8eEpV TIL George Picquart, an anti-semitic French army officer, helped to convict fellow officer Alfred Dreyfus, a Jew, of treason. Subsequently promoted to lead the secret intelligence service, he then discovered and exposed the conspiracy that had framed Dreyfus, eventually toppling the government.
J4x1 TIL Woodrow Wilson was the most educated President of the United States in history as the only one with a Doctorate. He also passed the Georgia bar exam without finishing law school.
AyDw Til that former ruler of panama Manuel Noriega was pen pals with a 10 year old girl from the United States, She originally wrote to him because she liked the general’s hat. This correspondence developed to the point where Noriega invited her family to visit him in Panama.
e0vv6 TIL The first recorded autopsy was performed in 44 B.C. on Julius Caesar to determine which of the 23 stab wounds he received had killed him. (It was a chest wound that severed his aorta.)
VWMD TIL that there is a secret train platform beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York