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TIL blockbusters last slogan was “That’s all folks!”
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TIL during WWII, Canada had PoW camps. The prisoners are referred to as the happiest prisoners, and were treated well. Many were given jobs, and some were even trusted with the guards rifles to go hunting. After the war, many brought their families to Canada.
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TIL in 2006, the Indy Car Series switched over to Honda engines and since then, there have been no Indy Car engine failures.
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TIL that pre-Christianity Vikings regularly traded with the Arab world to the point that dirhams are commonly found in 7th-11th century Viking hoards and burials. Trade with the Middle East would later stop as elites stopped focusing on trade in favor of feudal power.
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TIL Louis C.K.’s initials C & K, aren’t actually initials. His real last name is Székely, but it is really pronounced See-Kay, so he changed his name to Louis C.K. to make it easier for people to say.
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TIL When Erwin Schrödinger invented the notion of a simultaneously dead-and-alive cat in a box, he only intended the example to illustrate the absurdity of the existing view of quantum mechanics