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TIL A re-edit of the pilot episode of Battlestar Galactica was released theatrically in 1978 in Canada before the television series aired in the United States, in order to help recoup its high production costs.

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xVbj1 TIL- The "Hundred Flowers Campaign" of 1956 China, allowed and encouraged people to speak freely and openly express their opinions about the communist regime. After a year, the campaign was withdrawn the Chinese government imprisoned those who spoke critically about them.
MWm0 TIL in WWII the Japanese decrypted a British message to London complaining about the weak state of “Fortress Singapore”, a key British base. It was so frank in its admission of weakness that they suspected it was a plant, believing no officer would be so open in admitting weakness to his superiors.
eee6 TIL two Christian monks smuggled silkworms out of China in bamboo canes. Those silkworms were used to give the Byzantine Empire a trade monopoly in Europe, which became the foundation of their economy for the next 650 years.
X05OQ TIL Unilever became big as a colonial power with an area 2.5 times Belgium and mostly forced labor
oRVyr TIL the raising of the American Flag on Iwo Jima was not a planned thing, and was also makeshift. They used a drain pipe that the Japanese used to catch rain water in trenches. This was also the first time an American Flag was raised on Japanese soil in WW2.