# Tell us an interesting random fact you stumbled across (Part 1)

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**Created:** [April 13, 2020, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674 "2020-04-13T03:19:22Z")
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### Author: ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2021, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/1484 "2021-02-24T01:59:13Z")

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Just now while working through this thread abut wiki

> [@Spoons on the front page of Wikipedia!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoons-on-the-front-page-of-wikipedia/933519):
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> Or else it’s someone masquerading as @Spoons in the « Did You Know? » section. grin

The iteration of wiki’s main page I happened to hit contained this stunner:

> **[Internment of Japanese Canadians](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Canadians)**
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> From 1942 to 1949, Canada forcibly relocated and incarcerated over 22,000 Japanese Canadians—comprising over 90% of the total Japanese Canadian population—from British Columbia in the name of "national security". The majority were Canadian citizens by birth and were targeted based on their ancestry. This decision followed the events of the Japanese Empire's war in the Pacific against the Western Allies, such as the invasion of Hong Kong, the attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, and the Fall of Si

I had no idea the Canadians pulled the same sort of evil shit the Americans did.

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