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TIL shortest war in history lasted only 38 minutes

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0VAp TIL The depression throughout Japan following WWII was what inspired Osamu Tezuka,the father of manga and a medical student at the time,to draw comics to convince people to have hope again.These comics swept thru Japan and laid the foundation for the Japanese manga/anime culture that we know today
GAYZ4 TIL the first stop motion puppet film - The beautiful Leukanida (Film) from 1912 - was created by posing dead insects instead of using hand crafted puppets.
oBoJR TIL that Gentoo penguins propose to one another with pebbles
KORP9 TIL California comes from the Arabic word Caliph, named after a fictional island in a Spanish novel that was ruled by a black Arabic woman.
4kmmJ TIL Yang Kyoungjong, a Korean soldier, fought in three different armies during World War II. Drafted into the Imperial Japanese Army, he was captured and compelled to fight in the Red Army, then captured again and forced to join the German Wehrmacht, making him a veteran of three different armies.