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TIL the most decorated infantry unit in US history was made up of Japanese-Americans during WWII despite being untrusted and their communities forced into camps.

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wa0E TIL Mother Teresa encouraged members of her order to secretly baptise dying patients, many of whom were Hindus and Muslims
wBk1 TIL there are a pair of craniopagus conjoined twins whose brains are so intertwined, they share all of their senses. They see what each other sees, taste what each other tastes, feel what each other feels.
WXvL TIL that a high school in Pennsylvania issued a MacBook to each of its 2,306 students, then remotely activated the webcams to spy on the students at home.
5Ze9 TIL Māori tribal groups from New Zealand complained to LEGO as their language was heavily used in the Bionicle line of toys
WPBo TIL barber Poles are are a legacy of the barber-surgeons’ practice of bloodletting. The red represented the blood, the white the bandages, and the blue the protruding veins. This double job was legal until 1745.