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TIL the Canadian government established one of the most northern settlements in the world by tricking 8 families into living there and then not allowing them to leave.

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x6a9g TIL of the United States military training film A Welcome to Britain. Released in 1943, it educated GI’s about the less ethnically segregated UK and was narrated by Burgess Meredith.
PJ5J TIL that a nuclear bomb was dropped on Nagasaki instead of Kyoto partly because the Secretary of War at the time had his honeymoon there and admired it too much.
ZdgQ TIL Google has been providing free WiFi to its home city of Mountain View, CA since 2006. The entire city of 75,000!
QJ59L TIL Liechtenstein, a country that has one of the highest gross domestic products per person in the world when adjusted for purchasing power parity, has no army because it was deemed too costly.
x64AB TIL that "Sepak Takraw," a sport originating from Southeast Asia, is like volleyball but played with a rattan ball and using only feet, head, knees, and chest to pass the ball over the net. It’s extremely popular in countries like Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia, and is even played professionally.