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TIL There were Allied POWs in Nagasaki & Hiroshima during the bombings

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wLvKP TIL the five-dot pattern commonly found on six-sided dice is called a Quincunx.
P14dG TIL there's a bridge in Australia called Montague Street Bridge that's 3-metre high and has 26 warning signs, yet trucks keep hitting it a lot to the point that it becomes famous because of it.
kJx97 TIL in 1963 McDonald's tested out a pineapple burger (Hula Burger) to compete with a franchisee's 'Filet-o-Fish' sandwich creation in an attempt to woo Catholics during Lent
wLAE1 TIL about Rhode Island. The smallest US state, it was first in the union to declare independence from great Britain - on May 4, 1776. The rest of the Union would follow suit, and in turn force RI to ratify the US constitution. It was the last state to do so.
dDRgE TIL that during his time as the narrator for the US version of the first four seasons of the children's TV show Thomas the Tank Engine, George Carlin spoke his lines to a teddy bear in the booth because he was nervous about performing without an audience.