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TIL the Japanese history textbook controversies involve controversial content in government-approved history textbooks used in the secondary education of Japan. The controversies primarily concern the nationalist right efforts to whitewash the actions of the Empire of Japan during World War II.

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6E97w TIL that Heinz Heydrich, brother of SS General Reinhard Heydrich (one of the main architects of the Holocaust), helped Jews escape the Holocaust after reading his brother's SS and Gestapo files after Reinhard's assassination.
0v1y TIL that Amazon owns IMDB and is used to sell their movies.
dD9md TIL that The Goonies and Back To The Future took place on the exact same day
Opb7 TIL that President Lyndon B. Johnson often peed in public, even during his presidency. One time, a gust of wind blew his urine onto the leg of one of his Secret Service agents. When the agent informed him he was being peed on, President Johnson replied, “I know. That’s my prerogative.”