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TIL that the 1942 Rose Bowl was played in North Carolina because of the fear of a Japanese West Coast attack

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mkLY TIL that an Australian man living by a cliff has prevented around 160 suicides in his 50 years of living there, by striking up a conversation with people contemplating suicide and inviting them to his house for tea.
b6voN TIL Country Artist Trace Adkins, having accidentally cut it off himself, had doctors reattach his severed left pinkie finger at an angle that would permit him to continue using it for guitar playing.
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