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TIL about "Yasuke." Began researching Japanese history a few weeks ago and came across the first foreign born samurai

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yVjpw TIL some 7,000 refugees from the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) ended up in Nazi concentration camps, with tens of thousands more were conscripted into forced labor.
LkJMp TIL about the Controlled Impact Demonstration, where NASA and the FAA intentionally crashed a remote controlled Boeing 720 to gain data on a fuel additive that was believed to help suppress an airline fire in the event of a crash. The test ruled that this additive was ineffective.
69MWw TIL that Mary Kay Bergman, also credited as Shannen Cassidy, was an American voice actress and voice-over teacher. She was the official voice of the Disney character Snow White from 1989 to 1999 and the lead female voice actress on South Park from the show's debut in 1997 until her death.
4X4NX Donald Trump drinks 12 cokes a day.
pYEBp TIL that in 2004 the average attention span was found to be 150 seconds long. By 2012 it had declined by half to 75 seconds, and by 2018 the average attention span had decline further to just 47 seconds long.