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TIL Canada was so nice to their POW’s during World War 2 that almost 20% of them requested to stay after the war.

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Z8jj4 TIL, when Americans take pictures, we're usually asked to say "cheese", in China they say, "eggplant" and in Bulgaria they say, "cabbage", among other things in other countries.
xryk TIL that wolves in the wild do not have “alpha males” or “alpha females” with subordinate “betas” or “gammas”. Wolf packs are a family with the offspring of previous years.
V7QZ TIL PETA’s Virginia shelter rescued 1,606 cats and 1,025 dogs last year. Of those animals, 95.64% of the cats and nearly 77% of the dogs were euthanized.
P1Qyg TIL about a man under the pseudonym "Kirk Allen" who became deluded that a sci-fi book series was actually the story of his life. He filled in the blanks with elaborate details and hallucinated himself in those settings. He was treated by Robert Lindner, who himself became obsessed with the books.
5YgLp TIL that in the 1930s Austria established its own Fascist dictatorship with its own version of the Swastika whose leader, Engelbert Dollfuss was assassinated on Hitler's orders in 1934.