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TIL An Irish American group invaded Canada in 1866 to try and force the UK to give Ireland independence.

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7rZJZ TIL Ian Fleming was a keen bird watcher. When choosing a name for the hero of Casino Royal he used the name of the author of one of his bird books - James Bond. In 1964, Fleming gave Bond a first edition copy of You Only Live Twice signed, "To the real James Bond, from the thief of his identity".
NXBOb TIL Hitler's mistress, Eva Braun, showed no interest in politics, except in one notable episode. Learning that women's cosmetics and luxuries were to be banned owing to Germany's total war, she came to Hitler in 'high indignation,' leading to a halt in production without an outright ban.
ORwa TIL of Death Valley Unified School District, which covers 6000sq miles but serves only 60 students, making both one of the largest and smallest districts in the USA. It is also the only district with a school inside a national park.
5w58 TIL in 1994 a passenger was killed by a bomb on a Philippine Airlines flight. This led Philippine police to discover a plot to blow up 11 airplanes in 48 hours over the Pacific, and another plot, which they shared with the FBI in 1995, to fly airplanes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
69WkJ TIL the band KISS had to change their logo when performing in Germany because their S's looked like the Nazi SS emblem