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TIL that there is a Town in Minnesota called Little Canada and the Canadian Flag is even displayed in council chambers.

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rVaM TIL Klan numbers are down to 3,000 to 5,000 members from 5 million in the 1920s.
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ANJv4 TIL of the Waluigi Effect, a phenomenon in which Large Language Models, such as Chat GPT, goes rogue and produces results opposite the designed intent, named after the character from the 'Mario' series
Lk4nd TIL after collaborating on the intervention of the atomic bomb, the US promised they would share all of their research with the UK, as the UK had done so. However, the US lost the signed agreement and went back on its word. This meant the UK was the only country to invent nuclear weapons twice.
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