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TIL that Canada also sent its Japanese citizens to internment camps during World War 2

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JEbB TIL that a room known as ‘Room 641A’ in the AT&T telecommunications backbone houses beamsplitters capable of monitoring all the internet traffic in the US. It was largely thought to be a myth until PRISM revealed its existence in 2007.
697Qw TIL they gave octopuses MDMA to study their social behavior
dO6Q TIL The allies psychoanalysed the mind of Hitler during the war, and from their diagnosis made several correct predictions about his future behaviour.
PY1MG TIL the founder of the Alaskan Independence Party, which advocates Alaska's secession from the United States, was murdered in a botched plastic explosives sale and was buried in Dawson City, Yukon, reflecting his oft-stated wish not to be buried on American soil.
pYZNA TIL dogs actually have a sense of humour and sometimes do things because they know its funny