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TIL that happy cake day refers to a person's account anniversary, not their birthday

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vAEL TIL that in keeping with Ireland’s neutrality policy in WW2, the Irish Prime Minister (Taoiseach) expressed his condolences to the German ambassador when Hitler committed suicide
NGP1 TIL there is an amusement park in Nara, originally created to mimic DisneyLand in the US. The Park is now abandoned and looks awesome!
bJZ9 TIL Jules Verne wrote the novel “Paris in the Twentieth Century” back in 1863 and described a world of glass skyscrapers, high-speed trains, gas-powered automobiles, calculators, and a worldwide communications network.
kDd TIL American troops committed over 10,000 rapes in the space of just three months during the occupation of Japan
QWpX TIL President Lincoln’s son, Robert Lincoln, was saved from a potential train platform injury by Edwin Booth, the brother of John Wilkes Booth.