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

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k5kB TIL 1992 an officer in the Soviet KGB defected to the west brining with him thousands of notes he took during his career in the KGB archives. These notes reveal the KGB’s hand in framing the US government for the Kennedy assassination, spreading the rumor that AIDs was a US invention, and much more.
m1pkR TIL Samsung started off in 1938 as a grocery and noodle trading company before jumping into electronics in the 1960s.
jQPQ TIL that the South Park team begins episode production only a week before the air date, including script writing. Sometimes they even send the episode over just a few hours before it airs.
p8Dk8 TIL that Bassian thrush birds use farting as a way of disturbing their prey into moving so they can spot and catch them
KY0QQ TIL it was reported that over 500k children died as a result of sanctions on Iraq after the first gulf war, despite it being proven as a manipulation of census data by Saddam’s government, is still believed by many Iraqis today.