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TIL that one of the last samurais was a female, Nakano Takeko, who asked her sister to cut off her head when she was shot, so the enemies could not take it as trophy.

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QNl1a TIL becoming the President of France automatically makes you a co-head-of-state and monarch of Andorra. Neither head of state lives in Andorra.
D1vnJ TIL about Navy airmen Frank O'Flaherty and Bruno Gaido. They were captured by the Japanese during the battle of Midway. Only after the end of the war was it discovered that they were interrogated on board the destroyer Mikagumo, then had weights tied to them and were pushed overboard to their deaths
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