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TIL Canada and the U.S. Celebrate Labour Day on the same date!

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kOOR7 TIL that a study found that mindfulness training can be more beneficial in helping people quit smoking than the offical American Lung Association’s Freedom From Smoking treatment.
a1Xo TIL from a dictionary why the ancient Greek civilization of Sparta had no walls:“‘the Spartan king Agesilaus simply pointed to his fellow citizens, armed to the teeth, the most formidable soldiers in Greece: 'Here are the walls of the Spartans.’”
rRwZ0 TIL that when Norway was occupied by the Germans in WW2, the Nazis made the Lebensborn program where Norwegian girls were forced into mating with Nazi officers and having their children. One of the Lebensborn women grew up to be Frida Lyngstad, who was a member of the Swedish band ABBA.
GY4GQ TIL of the "Gimli Glider", Air Canada Flight 143, a Canadian scheduled domestic passenger flight between Montreal and Edmonton that ran out of fuel on July 23, 1983, at an altitude of 41,000 feet, midway through the flight. Successfully landed with 0 casualties.
ne0YW TIL That Finland was ranked as the World's Happiest Country in 2019 by CNN