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TIL Canada was so nice to their POW’s during World War 2 that almost 20% of them requested to stay after the war

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m5ax TIL a soldier who fired his gun in celebration in NYC got sentanced to 4 - 12 Years For Manslaughter after turning himself in after the stray bullet killed a mother in Queens.
Egg17 TIL that hunters transported wild boars in different areas of the US for hunting, even if it's illegal, and that's how feral pigs or wild boars have now become widespread throughout the country and have now become a pest.
5YOgD TIL common baking soda will dry Super Glue (Cyanoacrylate) almost instantly and harden it so much that it can be used to repair chips in helicopter blades.
YnLG TIL that when melting glass in space, zero gravity increases the viscosity and you can create glass with chemicals other than silica!! [x-post from r/glassblowing]
gey7 TIL there is no “Nobel Prize” for Economics - it is a separate prize created 67 years later, which Alfred Nobel’s descendants have called “a PR coup by economists to enhance the prestige of free market ideology and establish it as a science.”