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TIL that the Kantō region in Japan is real.

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oRMgY Today I Learned that Pete Seeger's first album appearance was on a record denouncing the prospect of war with Nazi Germany, as he was a Communist Party member supportive of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.
lovaa TIL the Himalayan giant honey bee naturally produces hallucinogenic honey that was once used to poison the army of Pompey the Great.
dDxJZ TIL that legendary film director Francis Ford Coppola, director of cinematic greats The Godfather (1972) and Apocalypse Now (1979), also directed the critically panned family comedy, Jack (1996), about a boy trapped in a rapidly aging body, starring Robin Williams.
b9WNj TIL in 2012 the town of Dull (Scotland) was paired as a twin-town with Boring (Oregon, USA). Later, in 2013, they were joined by Bland (Australia) and the three now form the "Trinity of Tedium", officially the "League of Extraordinary Communities".
R7jPl TIL That Texas Revolution was partly to keep slavery alive and well in Texas as slavery had been outlawed by Mexico. Slave's captured during the Battle of the Alamo were freed by the Mexican Army.