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TIL: Iva Toguri, the woman convicted of treason for being Tokyo Rose, lived in Chicago and helped run a family store until her death in 2006 at age 90.

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W7EPL TIL that in 1943, the hull of the tanker ship SS Schenectady cracked in half while docked in Portland, Oregon. The sound of the fracture was reported to have been heard over a mile away, and the cause of the failure wasn’t fully understood for another 50 years.
e0YjD TIL: There are locations on planet Mercury where during a day the sun will appear to pause, reverse direction, then continue forward again as it moves across the sky. This happens as the planet’s angular orbital velocity and angular rotational velocity flip as it crosses perihelion
7rwGp TIL King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand around 1960. An accidental monarch who was not born in the direct line of succession, he took the throne in 1946 at the age of 18 and became the personification of Thai nationhood. He would become known as the peoples king.
RYl8 TIL that Adidas, a German company, gave Jesse Owens free shoes to run in at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
MD9W TIL A single MDMA experience might permanently increase sociability and empathy in adults with autism