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TIL Germany secretly placed a weather station in Canada during World War 2. It wasn’t discovered until the 70’s.

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6NkW TIL that the US ranks 47th in the world in Freedom of Press
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4K7w TIL that Anthony Lane, a film critic for the New Yorker, once began reviewing ‘Contact’ (1997) and noted it “v. gloomy,” “odd noir look for sci-fi,” “creepy shadows in outdoor scene,” before realizing he had forgotten to take off his sunglasses.
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