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TIL A Swedish woman found her wedding ring on a carrot in her garden 16 years after she lost it

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epeBk TIL that in World War 1, the American Expeditionary Forces attempted to enforce Jim Crow laws on the French to regulate the treatment of Black soldiers and officers. This was done because they were worried that these individuals were being treated with excessive familiarity and indulgence.
drR8 TIL that pinball was banned in NYC as a gambling device until 1976, when Roger Sharpe testified by playing pinball in the courtroom while calling out precisely what he was going to shoot for and scoring - showing that it’s a game of skill and not chance.
6E06m TIL Hitler loved Irish folk music. When Sean Dempsey came to play for him in 1936 there was no room for him to sit, which he needed to play. Hitler jumped up and ordered an S.S. member get down on his hands and knees and that Dempsey sit astride him while he played.
6Er7W TIL: In Japan a 63 year old fisherman and karate expert fought off a bear, then drove himself to the hospital
9Y7kM TIL scientists believe there are 380 trillion individual virons inside the average human body