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TIL it’s entirely legal to eat dog and cat meat in Canada, there’s even a company in Toronto that sells dog meat called Elwood’s Organic Dog Meat

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ggE4 TIL that in 2002, Boeing delivered a 767 aircraft to China for use as President Jiang’s “Air Force One.” Chinese test pilots discovered a reported 20-30 extremely sophisticated surveillance devices embedded into sensitive areas of the plane, including the Presidential bedroom.
4XaZo TIL the idea for the Guinness Book of World Records was conceived when Sir Hugh Beaver (Managing Director of the Guinness Brewery) attended a party in Ireland in the early 1950s, where he and his hosts argued about the fastest game bird in Europe* and failed to find an answer in any reference book.
78onM TIL in 1967, gay rights activist John Nichols appeared in an NBC documentary called The Homosexuals. He used the pseudonym "Warren Atkins". His father was an FBI agent and feared he would lose his security clearance if they found out his son was gay, to the point of threatening to kill him.
AD4Lg TIL that the Nazi Germany Parliament was derisively referred to by Germans as the "the most expensive singing club in Germany", since it couldn't do much other than sing the National Anthem during its sessions.
ZOov TIL The Rwandan genocide - which caused 1 millions deaths - is agreed to be the direct cause of the First and Second Congo Wars, which caused 80000 deaths and 5.4 million deaths respectively. This means the Rwandan genocide probably caused 7.2 million deaths in total.