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TIL The Canadian Air Force had to raid a museum in order to get spare parts for their planes

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oBgdR TIL Hitler killed his dog Blondi before committing suicide in 1945. Afterwards, her puppies were immediately shot to prevent them from falling into the hands of the Russians.
9Q5M TIL the Oxford English Dictionary, one of the most esteemed reference works in history, was initially constructed via properly cited user submissions, much like Wikipedia.
0dkBp TIL The idea of the four humours also applied to emotions in the form of the four temperaments. One's temperament was based on the physical amounts of humours with the excesses causing one to be sanguine, choleric, melancholic, or phlegmatic. A healthy mind came from balanced humours.
RkKj TIL in 1251 the king kept a polar bear in the Tower of London, which “attracted a great deal of attention from Londoners when it went fishing in the Thames”
mx6OE TIL a border collie named “Pickles” recovered the stolen FIFA World Cup in 1966.