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TIL Germany tried brokering peace between the China and Japan during WW2

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KOr19 TIL Honda holds a patent for an 11-speed triple-clutch automatic transmission.
xVZPw TIL from 1906 to 1980, New Hebrides (today Vanuatu) was a French-British condominum, and both powers had separate administrations and courts. Colonists could choose to be under which law they wanted to live while natives were tried in their own laws
VBnLD TIL not all rectangular national flags have the same proportions. Belgium (13:15), Niger (6:7) and Denmark (28:37) are almost a square. Paraguay (11:20), America (10:19) and Qatar (11:28) are flatter bois. El Salvador is a 189:335 and Togo is a 1:φ.
NXpmE TIL between 1970 and 1976 alone, between 25 and 50 percent of Native American women were sterilized.
69gWW TIL that cream of tartar is made from a crystalline byproduct of wine making.