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TIL that during WW2 the Canadian government housed the Dutch Royal Family and when princess Juliana went into labour Canada declared the Hospital in Ottawa international territory so their child would maintain their Dutch citizenship and remain as the heir to the Royal Family.

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VBWL4 TIL Claudius Ptolemy made a list of the angle in water for each number of different angle in air, as recorded on a table from 140 AD. But it was not until 1621 when Willebrord Snell found the rule connecting the two angles: sinθi=nsinθr
JYJmB TIL that while Australia and New Zealand commemorates ANZAC Day, each year on 25 April Italy commemorates the end of Nazi occupation during World War II and the victory of the Resistance in Italy
5vvn TIL Buddhism predicts its own demise. We are currently in the second thousand years of the Dharma-Ending stage and there are 9000 years left before all Buddhist teachings have been lost or forgotten.
a8wnM TIL of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, an Italian composer who was expelled from Italy because he was Jewish and ended up working in the USA for Metro-Goldwin-Mayer and other Hollywood productions
yQYnw TIL the day after Hitler killed himself Dr. P. Joseph and Mrs. Goebbels killed themselves and their six children.