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x6DZw TIL that spinning tops are among the oldest known toys, with archaeological evidence showing children played with them thousands of years ago.
D108V TIL Japan Railways kept the underused Kyu-shirataki Station, located in a remote area of Hokkaido, Japan, open for an extra year for a single passenger -- a high school girl who needed to train to commute to class
69NOl TIL that King Christian X of Denmark regularly traveled without security during WW2 and spoke out against antisemitism while living under Nazi occupation, eventually rescuing 95% of Denmark’s Jewish population by relocating them to Sweden.
yVxMV TIL Jamaica was the first part of the British Empire to emancipate Jews, granting them full equal rights, eventually leading to their emancipation across the empire
OlwX TIL that in 1970s, people in Cambodia were killed for being academics or for merely wearing eyeglasses.