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TIL that the singer of Toto is the son of John Williams (composer for Star Wars, Jurassic Park, etc)

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lXDB TIL on August 5, 1944, one of the biggest jail-breaks in history involved hundreds of Japanese POWs attempting to escape an Australian prisoner camp. The Japanese considered the Australians weak because they treated the prisoners well. 234 of the Japanese were killed and another 108 wounded.
0w8nM TIL about Ralph Lazo, a Mexican-American who voluntarily relocated to a World War II Japanese American internment camp (Manzanar) to join his Japanese-American friends and neighbors. He was the only known non-spouse, non-Japanese American at Manzanar, where he lived for 2.5 years.
Ko06 TIL in 1897, a newlywed woman was found dead in her home. Although her death was attributed to natural causes, her mother’s insistence that she had been visited by the woman’s ghost compelled authorities to reopen the case, at which time an autopsy revealed the woman had suffered a broken neck.
BVVk TIL that the Mongols killed so many people in the Iranian Plateau that “Some historians have estimated that Iran’s population did not again reach its pre-Mongol levels until the mid-20th century”
0dmVM TIL that as teenagers, Simon and Garfunkel used to refer to themselves as Tom and Jerry