› added 4 years ago

163

TIL during World War 2, Hawaii’s Japanese population—about 158,000, more than one third of the territory’s total population—did not face mass removal and imprisonment similar to what happened on the mainland.

Read more law.berkeley.edu

via reddit.com

V6Ap TIL Game of Thrones TV show writers pull a prank on a member of the cast every season by giving them a fake script involving their death. “Then they leave it for about three weeks before they tell them they’re okay,”.
j6E7v TIL that Abraham Lincoln is in the wrestling hall of fame. His career span 13 years in which he suffered only one defeat in his 300 or so contests.
NoX6 TIL That since the end of the WWII Canada has been naming its 1000’s of unnamed lakes after fallen soldiers.
BrXxb TIL the appendix actually serves as a sort of “backup/restore point” for your guts bacteria should it get wiped out
JKvB TIL: St Augustine, who lived in the 4th century, advocated that god should have made use of natural, evolutionary, original causes in the production of man’s body. He believed it was the soul that was created through a supernatural process, the body was created through a natural evolutionary process