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TIL that Barry O'Brien who wrote for Filmation's Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night movie went on to write Hannah Montana decades later...

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VgE8 TIL that not only can Brazilian prisoners take time off their sentences by writing book reports, but also by riding exercise bicycles that helps power the local plaza. (16 hours of biking = 1 day removed from sentence)
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EgVBw TIL that Okinawa Island, captured from Japan during the War in the Pacific, remained under American administration until 1972
E1m6W TIL that thanks to a technicality in a 1912 treaty, Japanese nationals were entitled to work in the Netherlands without a permit between 2014 and 2017
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