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TIL The Japanese government has been hosting speed-dating events in hopes that the result will lead to more children as the countries population has dropped by more than 1 million since 2010

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l7v0A TIL about James Wilkinson, the ranking general of the US Army twice for 14 years in the 1800's and the first governor of the Louisiana Territory was actually a spy for the Spanish Empire who repeatedly tried to conspire against his superiors to create a separatist settler state
a1vo TIL Eleanor Roosevelt’s civil rights work angered the Ku Klux Klan so much that they put a $25,000 bounty on her.
KYvM6 TIL that the Guinness Book of World Records and Guinness Breweries are the same Guinness.
QOVM TIL that the TV show ‘The Incredible Hulk’ changed the main character’s name from Bruce Banner to David Banner because “Bruce” was a code word for homosexual men at the time.
Br5ND TIL about Wrong Way Corrigan. In 1938 he was denied permission to make a solo transatlantic flight because his plane was unsafe, but given the okay to fly to California. He took off, made a U-turn, and disappeared into the clouds. 28 hours later he landed in Ireland, claiming his compass had broken.