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TIL that during WW2 German prisoners of Wars in Canada were so well treated that they didn't want to leave the country when released. Thousands of them eventually stayed or came back to Canada with one saying that the time in Canadian prison was "the best thing that happened to me."

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9wvKQ TIL February has 28 days (as opposed to 30) because the Romans wanted to have more 31 day months because they considered even numbers unlucky.
0wjY1 TIL, 146 cryogenically frozen people are buried in the desert waiting for science to resurrect them
b60e0 TIL Wilhelm II received the Order of the Garter as a birthday present for his 18th birthday by his grandmother, Queen Victoria
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5VVrk TIL that the Squid Game Doll is named Young-Hee after a character in Korean textbooks similar to Jane in the Western world. It is also a real ornament used by a carriage museum and was only borrowed for filming the series.