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TIL that Mike Oldfield had so much trouble garnering label interest in his composition "Tubular Bells", that at one point he even considered asking the Sovie Union to pay him to give public performances

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ZmBB TIL that the age of consent in Japan is 13
0w8nM TIL about Ralph Lazo, a Mexican-American who voluntarily relocated to a World War II Japanese American internment camp (Manzanar) to join his Japanese-American friends and neighbors. He was the only known non-spouse, non-Japanese American at Manzanar, where he lived for 2.5 years.
DjRv TIL Canada was so nice to their POW’s during World War 2 that almost 20% of them requested to stay after the war.
m1jXR TIL the cocoa leaves used to make Coca Cola have the cocaine removed at the Stepan Company plant in Maywood, NJ. It is the only company legally allowed to import & process them. The extracted cocaine is sold to Mallinckrodt to be refined for medicinal use.
wLKR8 TIL of sculptor Anna Coleman Ladd who created customized prosthetic masks to be worn by men who had been badly disfigured in World War I and was knighted for her work by the French Government.