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TIL in 1912, Japan sent the USA some Japanese Cherry Trees as a sign of their blossoming friendship. After WW2, Japan’s Cherry Trees were weak and sick so the USA sent a bunch of them back to reinvigorate their trees!

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OXnL TIL Canada bought a license to produce a fighter the US no longer wanted, and it ended up being so successful as a ground attack aircraft that nobody was able to catch one during more than 20 years of NATO exercises. They won first or second place in nearly every exercise they participated in.
NDjM TIL that not once in Humpty Dumpty does it refer to him as an egg.
YXg7 TIL the Nickelodeon cartoon series, The Angry Beavers, is one of the only cartoons where a clock on the wall–visible in most episodes–updates in real time.
04kp TIL there is a “Redundancy Theory of Truth”, the belief that saying something is true is meaningless; e.g. “It is true that 2+2=4” means the same thing as “2+2=4”. Thus “truth” is a construct of language devoid of meaning. This solves the famous Liar Paradox (“This sentence is false.”)
W4aY TIL some astronauts experience a profound shift in life perspective after seeing Earth from space.