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TIL During the US occupation of Japan after WWII, General Douglas MacArthur oversaw the Japanese government introducing large social and economic reforms inspired by President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal

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XEnM6 TIL that Alaska is not only the most northern and western state in the US, but also the most eastern state due to the fact that the Aleutian Islands cross the 180° longitude line
76gr TIL that the city of Pompeii was covered in graffiti, including one case saying “Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!”
56vn TIL The Golden Ass is the only Ancient Roman novel in Latin to survive in its entirety
xVD67 TIL a dead girl was found in the River Seine in France in the 1880s. The coroner was so infatuated with her that he took a mold of her face. Her face became a morbid fascination and many copies were made. When the first CPR dummy was made, it used her face and has since continued to.
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