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TIL In 1996, Canada became the first country in the world to privatize its air navigation services.

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e0By5 TIL that during the Cold War, Chairman Mao held meetings in his swimming pool to embarrass Nikola Khrushchev, who had to wear a floaty as he couldn’t swim. Khrushchev felt insulted and the incident furthered the deterioration of relations between the Soviet Union and China
p8P44 TIL: 100 crew members of the nuclear submarine USS Scorpion were scheduled to make its 1968 deployment. One sailor refused to go citing the sub’s dire need of maintenance. 99 sailors were killed when the sub sank in the Atlantic.
yVRV TIL No child has ever gotten sick or died from tainted Halloween candy
b68r4 TIL that Eva Peron, wife of Argentinian dictator Juan Peron, had a prefrontal lobotomy done on her without her consent in the last months of her life, as she was dying of metastatic cancer.
84RV TIL John Stewart read every book from the authors he had on The Daily Show.