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TIL Dubai has a TGI Thursday’s instead of TGI Friday’s
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TIL in 1937, Marion Anderson gave a concert at Princeton but was denied lodging at a local segregated hotel. Einstein invited her to stay at his nearby home. They became friends, and she often stayed at his house whenever she visited Princeton
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TIL: Frank Buckles, the last surviving U.S. WW I veteran, died in 2011. He was 110. At 16, he lied about his age and enlisted in 1917. Later, when WW II began, he was working for a company in Manilla. Japan invaded the Philippines in 1941 and Buckles was captured and imprisoned for over 3 years.
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TIL that Ernest Hemingway worked for the KGB, tracked Nazi U-Boats from his fishing boat in Cuba, got charged with war crimes while leading a French militia against the Nazis, and had a six toed cat (marked as NSFW for other information provided in link)
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TIL about xenodiagnosis - where a bug that would usually carry a disease-carrying organism is allowed to feed on a patient's blood so that its gut can be then examined to try and find the organism and make the diagnosis
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TIL that there's a North Korean school system in Japan, ranging from kindergarten to university, for ethnic Koreans who registered with the DPRK.