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TIL Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania during WWII, saved 3000-6000 Jewish lives by unlawfully issuing transit visas so that they could travel to Japanese territory, risking his career and his family’s lives.

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ADxrl TIL that the 29th May (also this Friday) is officially “Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day”: before refrigerators were invented in the 1920s, families in Europe and the USA would place a piece of cloth on their larder for good luck once a year.
kAR1 TIL in 1998, a woman disappeared while awaiting trial after she had drunkenly killed a woman in a fatal car crash. In 2013, she was arrested in Manitoba, Canada after bragging in a bar about having gotten away with the crime.
VXQ0 TIL Polar bears are almost completely invisible to infrared cameras
Nvl8 TIL a trained Beagle assistance dog was credited with saving the life of its owner after using her owner’s mobile phone to dial an emergency number.
kJeA4 TIL that Big Bird has a Mexican cousin named Abelardo Montoya, which appears on Plaza Sezamo, the Mexican co-production of Sesame Street