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TIL two Alaskan islands were occupied by Japan in WWII.
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TIL that the current CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer, was also the first female employee at Google, in 1999.
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TIL There’s a rule in soccer/football that says if a player kicks the ball into his own goal on a direct free-kick, the opposing team is awarded a corner kick and not a goal
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TIL: Archaeologists uncovered 800 year old letters in Russia. Included was schoolwork by a young boy, in which he slacked off and doodled pictures of himself taking part in adventures.
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TIL a homeless man lived for three years in the spaces between the girders of a drawbridge, complete with working TV and Playstation, holding on to the beams every time the bridge raised and lowered to keep from falling.
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TIL "Cavers who witnessed earthquakes while underground have described sounds as if a distant aircraft was passing by, as in becoming perceptibly louder, then fading away."