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TIL The U.S. Forcibly Detained Native Alaskans During World War II. 881 Aleuts were forcibly relocated and interned in unsanitary camps in southeast Alaska, nobody was allowed to bring more than one suitcase of possessions. Troops then set fire to the villages to prevent its use by the Japanese

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5nW9 TIL Pope Pius XII declared, at the November 22, 1951, opening meeting of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, that the Big Bang theory does not conflict with the Catholic concept of creation.
8aYa4 TIL that after WWII, a brief period of time, 1945 to 1952, was the only time when Japan was occupied by a foreign power in its entire history. Japan was under the sole control of the United States.
9YkLp TIL that cows are more deadly than sharks, being responsible for an average of 22 deaths per year, whereas sharks average around 5. Around 75% of the attacks were deliberate, and it’s is even estimated that around 5 of the 22 deaths caused by cows per year are carried by a group of these bovine.
KZyB TIL The largest ransom ever paid to a single individual was to the Spanish conquistador, Francisco Pizarro, by the Inca Empire before their leader, Atahualpa, the victim, was executed in 1532. The ransom payment of a “roomful of gold” was probably over $2 billion in today’s economic markets.
GYOXQ TIL The Toba catastrophe theory that states human population was bottle-necked about 70K years ago due to a super massive volcanic eruption. Humanity may have dwindled to less than 10K individuals and many other animal species were similarly affected.