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TIL Danny Trejo is 70 years old.

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wQNW TIL that American volunteers fighting in other nations armed forces in WW2 lost their citizenship and changed their nationality to Canadian. Congress eventually passed a blanked pardon in 1944.
PYlaZ TIL that Japanese bullet trains have never had fatalities due to derailments or collisions, but once a boy had his finger stuck in the closing doors and was dragged along until dead. Court fined the station officer present $5k and had Japan Railways pay the boy's parents $440k in compensation.
EE5X TIL the scene depicting the Omaha landings at Normandy in Saving Private Ryan cost $12 million and used up to 1,500 extras.
VBoOQ TIL That when Jeanette Rankin took her seat as Montana's Congresswoman in the United States House of Representatives in 1917, she became the first woman ever elected to sit in a national parliament. To date, she is also the only woman ever elected to represent Montana in Congress.
ANY0w TIL about Chaicharn Harnavee, a Thai Special Force and POW in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. For assisting the American POWs who shared his captivity, Harnavee received the Silver Star and Legion of Merit medals from the United States and his picture is hung in the Pentagon's Hall of Heroes.