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TIL that Japanese bus drivers held a 'strike' while carrying on with their jobs

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16yaW TIL of the Franco-British Union, proposed to unite the two in June 1940. It would have united the militaries, government, and foreign policy of both nations, with very citizen of France immediately enjoying citizenship of Great Britain and every British citizen becoming a citizen of France.
99mr TIL Alaska has the highest botulism rate in the U.S. and one of the highest worldwide. According to the CDC, close to 40 percent of food-borne botulism cases reported in the U.S. between 1990 and 2000 (103 of 263) occurred in Alaska, one of the least populous states.
R7Oxl TIL that while Sonora Smart Dodd heard a church sermon about Mother’s Day she felt that fatherhood needed recognition as well. She approached a church and suggested June 5th (her father’s birthday) as the day of honour for fathers. The church chose the third Sunday in June to be Father’s Day.
l7X51 TIL that there is a more human way of extracting silk from Sikworms instead of boiling them alive, called Ahimsa Silk. But we choose cruelty anyways!
p8wDp TIL when Sun Ra played a gig at a mental hospital, it prompted a patient to talk for the first time in years. She got up in the middle of the set, stood next to him at the piano, and a few minutes later leaned over and almost screamed, "Do you call that music?!"