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TIL Canada didn't become fully independent from the UK until 1982

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4QOw TIL Hong Kong has the highest intelligence of any country/territory on earth with an average IQ of 107, followed by South Korea and Japan. The USA doesn’t break the top 10.
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mxkXY TIL that an American army doctor who served in Vietnam returned an arm he’d amputated to its owner, a Vietnamese soldier, 47 years after he took it as a souvenir of a good deed. They met each other’s children and grandchildren and joked about which of them had been better looking back in the war.
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