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TIL the shortest recorded war lasted only 45 minutes!
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TIL A Canadian judge canceled a marriage annulment after discovering that the wife who testified during court proceedings had been an imposter.
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TIL after a Baptist church ran a newspaper ad calling beer "The Devil's Craft," a taproom began accepting it as a coupon for discounted beer
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TIL… In 1954 the CIA deposed a democratically elected Guatemalan president and replaced him with a dictator to save investments in a banana company.
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TIL Japan has a sociological phenomena known as “Hikikomori”, in which there’s an estimated 1 million Japanese who choose to completely isolate themselves from society by rarely or never leaving their homes.
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TIL William Randolph Hearst went to great lengths to shut down the production of Citizen Kane, going so far as to purportedly arranging for a naked woman to jump into director Orson Welles' arms at his hotel room; a photographer would also be hiding to take a "salacious" photo of them.