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

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9db6 TIL the first US Special Forces deployed to Afghanistan after 9/11 actually rode HORSES into combat with the Taliban.
N7gDe TIL Adélie penguins have been observed to engage in necrophilia, as young males often cannot tell the difference between compliant and dead females. This was first observed in 1912 but was deemed too shocking, and so was only rediscovered in 2012.
B7JK TIL that Russians almost surely didn’t put frogs in their milk to preserve it.
rNYvw TIL René Just Haüy founded the science of crystallography after he accidentally broke a piece of calcite and discovered that they cleaved along straight planes that met at constant angles. He broke more pieces to confirm his discovery and developed the theory of crystal structure.
OGjKX TIL that Andrew Lloyd Webber so so 'emotionally damaged' after seeing the 2019 adaptation of his musical 'Cats', he bought himself a dog.