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TIL Democratic Republic of Congo completed its $22m National Museum in 2019. It is hoped the collection will be expanded with items taken abroad during the colonial era. In 2018, a landmark French report called for thousands of artefacts to be returned to Africa

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0Yn5 TIL that two Japanese sled dogs survived alone in Antarctica for 11 months
yJpv TIL Lenin’s dead body is bathed and dressed in new clothes every year. His tomb is in center of Moscow open to public, despite his death wish to be buried next to his wife
vPakK TIL that Zhivopisny bridge in northwestern Moscow is unique because it runs diagonally along a ~400m section of the Moskva river, rather than perpendicularly across it.
Z89YY TIL in 1975, a Soviet naval officer led a mutiny onboard a frigate with the aim of toppling the government of Brezhnev. It failed after a standoff with half of the Soviet Baltic fleet, but an article about it inspired an insurance salesman named Tom Clancy to write his book, The Hunt for Red October
PYejL TIL A British MP tried to fake his own death, and was only discovered in Australia after being mistaken for another famous missing person. He was later found to be a Czech spy and died from a heart attack he suffered on live TV.