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XE4Ej TIL that when Sultan Mohammed V of Morocco was commanded to round up all Moroccan Jews for relocation to Nazi concentration camps, he said "There are no Jews in Morocco. There are only Moroccan subjects." Not a single Moroccan Jew was deported or killed during WWII.
6ElEQ TIL the 13-star American flag attributed to Betsy Ross was just one of many designs that fit the Continental Congress’ resolution that the flag have “thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field”
4kBPN TIL automobile manufacturer Fiat sent 50,000 anonymous love letters to women in Spain in 1994 as part of a marketing campaign for the Fiat 500. Upon receiving the letters, some women became confused, anxious, scared, and/or wanted someone to escort them to work. Fiat ended up being sued and fined.
xGOg TIL Japan has had heated roads for 56 years which use shosetsu (snow melting) pipe system using the heat energy of groundwater to melt snow on roads
evkE TIL that when preparing for the role of Gny. Sgt. Hartman in “Full Metal Jacket”, R. Lee Ermey wrote roughly 150 pages of insults