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TIL the Canadians had Japanese internment camps like the Americans

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KYQbE TIL The lead singer of The Human League, Paul Oakey, hated the song "Don't You Want Me" so much that he demanded the record company include a large colour poster with the 7" single because he felt fans would "feel ripped off" by the 'substandard' single alone. It would become their biggest hit.
7rpAb TIL that Milky Way obstructs our view of around 20% of the extragalactic sky at visible wavelengths. That area is called the Zone of Avoidance and it is the reason humans do not have a complete picture of the extragalactic sky yet.
b90Np TIL since 2018, the Circus Roncalli in Germany has entirely eliminated the use of live animals. Using 11 projectors, holographic acts replicate traditional circus fare, like a performing elephant, an ethereal ring of horses galloping around, even a huge goldfish hovering in the middle of the arena.
9YJ4m TIL About the "Great Cat Massacre" In 17th century Paris a group of apprentices, angered that they were treated worse than cats, imitated the felines screeching all night. The master ordered the noisy cats killed. The apprentices held a trial, convicted the cats of witchcraft, and hung them.
KOlyJ TIL that a female zebra shark held in captivity in Australia gave birth asexually in 2017. It is only the third documented case of a vertebrate of any species switching its reproductive strategy from sexual to asexual. Sperm storage was ruled out when genetic testing was done on the offspring.