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TIL after the release of the film "It's a Wonderful Life", the FBI released a memo warning the American public of it's "communistic messages"

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wM4M TIL that Japan is moving an entire 400-year-old castle 230 feet away to fix its foundations. They’ll move it back in 2021.
9wxw7 TIL Dolly Parton produced Buffy the Vampire Slayer
rNepW TIL - In 2000, the first crewed mission to the International Space Station (Expedition 1) launched on October 31. This began continuous human presence in space, with astronauts from NASA and Roscosmos working together aboard the ISS. The collaboration has been ongoing ever since.
ovJK TIL that the atomic clocks aboard GPS satellites are programmed to compensate for time dilation due to General Relativity. Otherwise, after just one day, GPS devices would show coordinates that would be off by around 10Km!
9wQdG TIL that East Germany is believed to have made around 3.5B DM off West Germany by ransoming political prisoners