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TIL Brazil has the biggest Japanese community outside of Japan.

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BgWDK TIL that the song "Istanbul (not Constantinople)", famously sung by The Four Lads in 1953 and They Might Be Giants in 1990, was written to mark the 500th anniversary of the city's titular name change.
ZxVG TIL During the Holocaust, Jews were able to hide and escape on a ship by lining the floorboards with cocaine to numb the noses of the Nazi jew-sniffing dogs during searches.
OGJnL TIL of the Pappenheimer witch trial, in which the Pappenheimer family was executed after being accused of witchcraft - the accuser desiring to promote witch trials in Bavaria and also to close a variety of other unclosed cases. Despite this, witch trials remained unpopular and rare.
nOy7 TIL in 2016 an Alabama man was sentenced to 40 years after murdering a man who had sexually abused his daughter. The abuser had previously served 27 months of a 5 year sentence.
Qnoa TIL In China, women who remain unmarried in their late 20s and beyond are called “Sheng nu” which means “leftover women.”