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TIL that Canada is the only non-European member of the European Space Agency.

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DQPjV TIL Japan Airlines has a museum in their training facility that displays parts of the wreckage from the deadliest single-aircraft accident in aviation history to help educate future employees with no memory of the JL(JAL)123 crash of the importance of flight safety.
gMxO9 TIL that Napoleon III of France, whose father fought the British (as part of the Seventh Coalition) in the Hundred Days War, is buried with his son, in Farnborough, England.
4XaVb TIL Kaiser Wilhelm II drew up plans to invade the United States in 1897. The plan called for an attack on Boston and New York in order to neuter American power in the Pacific.
ADGon TIL that as a result of the investigation into serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, Russian police solved more than more than 1000 unrelated crimes, including 95 murders, 140 aggravated assaults, and 245 molestations.
VvyG TIL Will.I.Am created the theme song for Samurai Jack