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TIL many members of the Yakuza are actually Korean

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69m0W TIL that the site for modern-day Vatican City was originally a circus for Roman Emperor Nero called Circus of Nero.
JAdQ TIL of Adrian Schoolcraft, ex NYPD officer who recorded corruption,wrongdoings and police abuse in the NYPD. He submitted it to investigators and ended up reassigned to a desk job, got abducted from his house and thrown in a psychiatric facility against his will and fired. His family got the bill.
Brrpe TIL that Canada was the last colony in the New World to have been visited by a Jew. The first was a cross-dressing female sailor who was deported back to France when her gender and religion were discovered
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