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TIL the people of Sweden love Donald Duck so much, they had to make voting for him illegal.

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6E5YZ TIL about Juan Pujol Garcia, a spy who single handedly saved thousands of lives during D-Day by using his made-up network of spies to convince the Germans that another attack was going to happen in Calais instead of Normandy. He was also the only person to be decorated by both the Axis and Allies.
gMjab TIL The First Japanese Convert To Christianity Was A Murderer On The Run
nWWl9 TIL that a Nigerian-born man named August Brown took part in the Warsaw uprising in 1944, WW2
reyd TIL a reporter once asked Darius Rucker what he thought of the Simpsons episode where Chief Wiggum told Bart the Hootie and the Blowfish tape was cheaper than a blank tape; Rucker said it’s one of his favorites: “Bart Simpson said the name of my band. That was worth anything.”
grmoD TIL of Francesco Morosini, a Venetian general who is said to have "dressed always in red from top to toe and never went into action without his cat beside him." After his death, they embalmed his cat Nini alongside him with a mouse between her paws.