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TIL That Tokyo has more people living in it than all of Canada

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mxR7P TIL Fruit Flies were the first living organisms in outer space. They were launched in a captured Nazi V-2 rocket on Feb. 20, 1947. The flies reached an altitude of 68 miles (108 km) and were recovered alive by parachute.
r7PW TIL the fat and round “Laughing Buddha” isn’t a depiction of Gauthama Buddha at all, but of a Chinese deity called “Budai”
ElEx TIL the Basque language is the only isolate language of Western Europe - it is not related to Spanish, French, or any other known language.
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