Post * PPPV — Curious Curator

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TIL that while the American Government interned 110,000 people of Japanese decent living in America (including American citizens) the 442nd Infantry Regiment (composed of almost entirely of people of Japanese descent) became the most decorated infantry regiment in the history of the US Army.

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p8NY8 TIL that an investigative journalist recorded himself eating 17 bars of chocolate produced using child labor and took himself to court for "knowingly purchasing an illegally manufactured product". When the case was dismissed, he founded his own slavery-free chocolate company.

6pWZ TIL that in West Virginia and Ohio it is illegal to warm your car up and leave it running to go back inside during cold weather months.

8ayva TIL During WWII, the Amsterdam zoo hid around 250 people from the Nazis during the Nazi occupation of Holland.

eOJg TIL: The President of Belarus introduced a new law in 2014 that prohibits collective farm workers from leaving their jobs willingly. He later admitted that the law is very much like medieval serfdom.

gMn49 TIL Futurama's "Jurassic Bark" episode is a homage to Hachiko, the Akita who waited 9 years following Ueno's death for him to come back.