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

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1aJJP TIL that green eyes are the rarest colored eyes in the world with only 2% of the world’s population having green eyes.
epKyL TIL when first touching down on an aircraft carrier, a pilot will push the throttle to full power. This allows their aircraft to become airborne again, in case the arresting cable should fail to catch and stop it.
wNA6 TIL Between 2000-2015, Google had an informal motto of “Don’t be evil”. The idea was to have a motto that “once you put it in there, would be hard to take out”. When Google began to track users in 2012, there was a public backlash to the motto. The motto was replaced by “Do the right thing” in 2015.
7rNEP TIL the names of the ghosts in the game Pac- Man are Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde
VBLmk TIL there’s a species of jellyfish that can reverse their age once reaching adulthood