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TIL During WWII to further segregate the Japanese that were in interment camps, the US Government gave them a loyalty questionnaire asking people to serve in the military and swear allegiance. The young men who answered no to both were called "No-no Boys" and were vilified even to other Japanese.

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wLbwJ TIL the cheeseburger was invented by a 16 year old short order cook in Pasadena, CA in 1924. It was described as the "Aristocratic Hamburger." Subsequent claims of birthing the cheeseburger occurs in Denver, CO in 1935, and in Louisville, KY in 1934.
ZERR TIL exposure to platinum can turn snails into their evolutionary decedents the slug.
YpBXW TIL that basketball player Austin Hatch survived two plane crashes, one in 2003 that killed his mother, brother and sister, and one in 2011 that killed his father and stepmother.
5YJ09 TIL that there is a fire in a Zoroastrian temple in Iran that has burned for more 1500 years straight
Wk0bo TIL Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust, was buried in a cemetery on Mount Zion in Jerusalem. He is the only member of the Nazi Party to be honoured this way.