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TIL every year, Norway gives a giant christmas tree to the people of London in gratitude for Englands help during WW2

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kWGe TIL Several test pilots were once awarded astronaut wings despite not being in a space program. They managed to exceed 50 miles in altitude or more while attempting to break the world speed record in an X-15 test aircraft. They even managed to break Mach 4, 5, and 6…at up to 67 miles above earth.
BgZmW TIL in 2009 Burger King ran the "Whopper sacrifice" campaign, which gave a free whopper to anyone who deleted 10 friends on Facebook. Facebook suspended the program because Burger King was alerting people letting them know they'd been dropped for a sandwich
kOZbd TIL that in some Arabic-speaking countries, the missionary position is called "the manner of serpents."
GAPPG TIL of the fate of Mr. Cheeseface, the dog featured on the cover of National Lampoon magazine with a gun to his head. He was actually shot and killed by an unknown assailant a few years later on a farm in rural Vermont
RxL6 TIL in 1600 one of the first Englishmen to land in Japan ended up a samurai and adviser to the Shogun