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TIL Harry Fusao O’Hara a Japanese expat, volunteered to fight for Britain in World War One, wounded nearly 70 times he remains the only known Japanese national to serve in the RAF.

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a8bny TIL Glynn Simmons was wrongfully convicted in 1975 for the 1974 murder of Carolyn Sue Rogers. After being exonerated, he was released from prison in 2023 at age 70, after being imprisoned for 48 years. His imprisonment after a wrongful conviction is believed to be the longest in American history.
oRKGA TIL that the nomenclature for multiples of a thousand is different in the U.S. vs. the U.K. and the French. For example, a thousand times a thousand is a million in both. Times a thousand again becomes, in the U.S., a billion, whereas in the U.K. it becomes a thousand million, or milliard.
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nWJyB TIL only one person correctly guessed who shot Mr. Burns in the Simpson’s 1995 contest. The person made a post online and the writers wanted to give them a special gift, but they were unable to find the anonymous poster and on the DVD commentary, they were still searching for the individual
7M7p TIL John Clem became the youngest sergeant in US history when he was 12, shot a confederate colonel with a miniature musket after he demanded his surrender, and was the last civil war veteran on active duty in 1915.