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TIL After Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, Canada declared war on Japan before the US did

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loQJ7 TIL about a species of extremophile bacteria that was only ever found in two spacecraft clean rooms, located 4000 km apart. In one of them a Mars lander "Phoenix" was assembled, and the species was given a name after the lander: Tersicoccus phoenicis.
4XkaJ TIL EA Turned the Sims Online into EA-Land before shutting the servers down the same year.
e9Vb TIL Miracle Whip is a salad dressing, because the U.S. FDA requires that anything labeled as “mayonnaise” must contain a minimum of 65 percent vegetable oil by weight.
GYpKg TIL that 85% of Native American children were taken from their homes fron the 1940's to the 1970's and placed up for adoption in non-Indian homes in an attempt to make the tribes go extinct.
X0vdP TIL that the FDA does not recognize Dr Pepper as a cola, a root beer, or a fruit-flavored soft drink. Instead, Dr Pepper is said to be in a category of its own kind, called "pepper soda", named for the brand.