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TIL during WWII Canada gave out buttons to people who tried to enlist but were refused due to medical reasons to show their willingness to fight

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oxGW TIL That Africans were once an exhibit at the Bronx Zoo in 1906.
wLEg8 TIL that Rolls-Royce cars have an anti theft mechanism that retracts the "Spirit of Ecstasy" ornament should it be jostled.
BrZRr TIL In 1964, Zambian teacher and freedom fighter Edward Mukuka Nkoloso started a space program. Weightlessness training involved rolling downhill in an oil drum, flight was planned to be via catapulting from a tree and the crew consisted of a 16 year old girl, a Christian missionary and some cats.
QNWaE TIL although Leonard Cohen’s song “Hallelujah” has nothing to do with Christmas or winter, it has gradually been added to the Christmas Music repertoire because Britain’s Got Talent singer Susan Boyle decided to include it on her Christmas album in 2010