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TIL that Tahiti is the first and only nation other than Australia and New Zealand to win the OFC Men’s Nations Cup

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wLlgM TIL the French government didn't admit to its complicity in the Holocaust until 1995, i.e. 40 years after the Nazis were defeated.
DQdQD TIL the number of banking tellers in the US rose from 300,000 to 600,000 with the introduction and spread of ATMs
m1vDP TIL: Sogen Kato was a Japanese man thought to have been Tokyo's oldest man until July 2010, when his mummified corpse was found in his bedroom.
vyRj TIL that in 1966 Australia became the last democratic country to lift the ban on married women in the public service. The Commonwealth Public Service Act 1902 stated that every female officer was “deemed to have retired from the Commonwealth service upon her marriage”.
ne4jb TIL of Albert Anastasia who at 19 killed a coworker in a fight and was sentenced to death. He won a retrial on a technicality and was freed when no witnesses reappeared. He then became one of America’s deadliest mobsters personally murdering at least 1,200 people and ordering the deaths of 10,000+.