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TIL Roald Dahl wrote the screenplay for the 1967 James Bond film, You Only Live Twice. He was actually friends with Ian Fleming, but disliked the original novel. So with the blessing of film producers, he heavily changed the story to better fit the big screen.

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ONDL TIL that Japan didn’t sign the 1929 Geneva convention on treatment of POWs, and nearly half of all Americans captured by the Japanese in WW2 were killed in custody.
lodmr TIL of the Stockbridge Militia, a Native American military unit from Stockbridge, Massachusetts, which was the first group of Native Americans to fight for the cause of American independence during the Revolutionary War.
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