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TIL in WW2, Japan interned 130,000 British, Dutch, and American civilians. 14,000 of them perished as a result

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E15MX TIL of "cargo cults", originated in early 20th century tribal communities on a number of Pacific islands, whose followers believe that either an American WWII soldier named John Frum, or Prince Philip, are their saviours.
LXoZ TIL Originally, in the story of Little Red Riding Hood, the wolf and the girl eat the flesh of the grandmother together.
BrlOd TIL Holland is a region and former province on the western coast of the Netherlands, not a formal name for the country.
XvVX TIL in Argentina, the seventh son of a couple automatically receives the godfathership of the President to prevent him from turning in to a werewolf.
Xj1Q TIL that Hideki Tojo, Prime Minister of wartime Japan, was fitted with a new set of dentures by US medical staff after his failed suicide attempt in 1945. The phrase “Remember Pearl Harbor” had been secretly drilled into them in Morse code.