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TIL there exists the "Official Monster Raving Loony Party", a political party established in the UK in 1982 and is still actively running for elections.

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9wOE7 TIL Estelle Peck faced a decision after her Japanese husband was incarcerated, stay with her husband of 13 years and be incarcerated or remain in Los Angeles alone. She chose to be with her husband, making her one of the few non-Japanese individuals incarcerated in these camps.
0dGg5 TIL the south magnetic pole is actually outside Antarctica currently.
b9Z5p TIL Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling's final project was Fantasy Park, a 1975 radio concert. It was a 48-hour long rock concert edited together from dozens of separate live acts, including The Beatles. Presented as an actual concert, stations reportedly received calls asking how to get to the show.
oV1r TIL Neither Stalin nor Hitler have the title of worst genocide ever. Mao Zedong, of China, killed an estimated 63 million
RA77 TIL that in 1986, when a five year old boy fell into a gorilla enclosure and lost consciousness, a gorilla named Jambo stood between the boy and the other gorillas in a protective gesture, he even stroke the boys back. This incident helped create a positive public perception of gorillas.