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TIL Claire Danes is considered a persona non grata in the Philippines after making derogatory comments about the country.

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kJ5Og TIL that Karl Dönitz, the man who succeeded Hitler and was the last leader of Nazi Germany, survived his post-war prison sentence of only ten years and only died in 1980. He denied any wrongdoing for the rest of his life.
X0QGk TIL of Operation Underworld during WW2 when the US government cooperated with the mafia and organized crime to protect Northeastern seaports
rdBd TIL Al “Scarface” Capone got his infamous scars when he told a woman “You got a nice ass” in front of her brother while working at a bar
d5rE TIL The the power symbol found on every power switch is actually a 1 and 0. The English words On and Off were replaced by the universal numeral symbols 1 and 0 to bypass any possible language barriers as technology became more ubiquitous.
aMrb TIL that in 1958 after six-year-old white girl Sissy Marcus playfully kissed seven-year-old black boy David Simpson as nine-year-old James Thomson -also black- stood by, both boys were arrested for “molestation” and sentenced to reform school until they reached the age of twenty-one.