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TIL That Japan is Re-Arming because of China

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0dArM TIL According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word "hot" started being used to describe "attractive" as far back as the 1300s.
VA80 TIL the terms “fed up” “haggard” and “wrapped around your little finger” along with many others, came from medieval falconry
peb8 TIL:Sophie Scholl was a German woman executed by the Nazis for distributing anti-Nazi pamphlets.Her last words were: “How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to offer themselves up individually for a righteous cause? Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go.”
VBW5G TIL the small cup with rice cookers measures to 1-gō, the traditional amount used for a serving of rice and a cup of sake in Japanese cuisine.
MeZyb TIL that Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs, a blackface parody of Snow White, has been praised by animation historians, and has been included on lists of the greatest animated films ever - but is considered to have racism unparalleled in cartoon history, and has been banned from circulation since 1968