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TIL Robert Downey Jr. credits Mel Gibson with saving his career and getting him sober.

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mxBDE TIL That my country Canada interred over 90% of Japanese Canadians residing in British Columbia during WWII. The majority of these 22,000 people were Canadian by birth. Measures were paid for in part by seizure and sale of the property of those interred and were not lifted until 1949.
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