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TIL of Katsuma Dan, a Japanese marine biologist who studied in the US before WW2 and who saved his marine lab with a note to advancing American forces asking to preserve his scientific work. (note in comments)

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aN99 TIL there is a man trying to get a new letter in to the alphabet to replace the word “the”.
J1mLl TIL about ERNIE, a device introduced by the UK government in 1957 to draw premium bond prizes. The original ERNIE used neon tubes and electrons to generate true random numbers and filled up an entire room.
R5v66 TIL of the Association of German National Jews - a pro-Hitler Jewish organisation. Founded in 1921 as an anti-communist body it wholeheartedly supported Hitler arguing his anti-Semitic stance was only rhetoric. It was banned in 1935 and it's founder taken by the Gestapo.
e0144 TIL that the blind/visually impaired and those with motor issues qualify for the entire library of Congress audiobook and braille collection for free. You don't have to be completely blind qualify, you just have to have the backing of a qualified professional and demonstrate proficient need.
epyLD TIL that Nabokov saw each letter as a color. It's called grapheme-color synesthesia