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TIL Godzilla is now an official citizen of Japan

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VOXB TIL a fitness trainer intentionally gained over 70 pounds to better understand the plight of his overweight clients. Then lost it all again six months later.
QJ9wa TIL After Germany's surrender in WWI, and the subsequent limitations on their aircraft industry, Anthony Fokker moved his factory to West Virginia.
g8My TIL Marvel created a new superhero called “Blue Ear” to encourage a young boy with a hearing impairment to wear his hearing aid.
rrXe TIL in 1988, the administrative law judge for the DEA stated: “Nearly all medicines have toxic, potentially lethal effects. But marijuana is not such a substance. There is no record in the extensive medical literature describing a proven, documented cannabis-induced fatality”.
vP4W4 TIL 8-10 year old boys were sometimes castrated to preserve the high prepubescent vocal range. (This practice stopped in the late 1700s)