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TIL White claw has Canadian origins

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Z8PpR TIL that larch trees were planted in a German forest that displayed a giant swastika when viewed from above. The design remained visible for over 60 years until the reunified German government discovered the site from aerial photographs.
1a1K4 TIL: About the Minoan Civilization (3000BC) where women walked barechested and men used skirts
pYne8 TIL in 1947, a moth got trapped between the relay on the Harvard's Mark II Calculator, making the worlds first computer bug an actual insect
rRmmM TIL that all polar bears are Irish because they are all descendants of Irish brown bears that lived in the last ice age.
P1Pdw TIL about Hatshepsut, the greatest female pharaoh of Egypt. She expanded Egyptian trade routes and oversaw ambitious building projects, most notably the Temple of Deir el-Bahri. Hatshepsut remained largely unknown to scholars until the 19th century.