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TIL that the elderly in Japan decided to clear up the nuclear waste so that the young were not exposed to it.

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6Y6l TIL: The Nazis never called themselves ‘Nazis’, as it was a derogatory word for a backwards peasant. It was the anti-Nazis that popularised the term.
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