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TIL Between 1921 and 1932 three Japanese Prime Ministers were assassinated by Rightwing members of Japanese society

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lj1V TIL A Humanist can have a faith or belief in god. The difference is that a humanist will be guided by their conscience over a teaching of a religion.
9wQ7 TIL that in Star-Wars, all lightsabers were supposed to be White, the Blue / Red distinction was made during post-production.
OG9e7 TIL The USA's National Broadcasting Company (NBC) helped fund a tunnel beneath the Berlin Wall in 1962
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