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TIL that the Canadian flag was created because Egypt rejected Canada as a peacekeeping country.

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rR1Me TIL when the head of Universal Studios saw a film by a young student named Steven Spielberg, he called him in for a meeting, offered him a 7-year contract and told him, "a lot of people will stick with you in success; I’ll stick with you in failure."
bE54 TIL that as part of a marketing campaign in 2012, Nestle posted a photo on Instagram of a person in a bear costume playing drums, using Kit Kats as drum sticks. Nestle removed the photo shortly afterwards amid controversy that it looked like “Pedobear”
xVpP7 TIL that Burkina Faso meaning “land of incorruptible people” used to be called The Republic of Upper Volta after the Volta river with its flag representing the 3 main tributaries: the Black, White, and the Red Volta.
0wLey TIL: A small village in Austria (1100 citizens) has its own small MRT (1,3km)
eQDn TIL In WWII, only 8,300 British and American POWs—3.6 percent—died in German custody. 3.3 Million Soviet POWs—57%—were killed because they were seen as racially inferior.