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TIL that Akihito was tutored by a Quaker named Elizabeth Gray Vining after Japan's defeat in WWII, she taught the crown prince English and Pacifist Ideas.

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8VnP TIL in the 1940’s Stetson Kennedy went undercover as a Klansman, gave Klan passwords to the writers of the popular “Superman” radio show, who used them in a story line in which Superman fights the KKK. Kennedy has been dubbed “the greatest single contributor to the weakening of the Ku Klux Klan”
JPRm TIL that Sir Tim Berners-Lee – the inventor of the World Wide Web – randomly selected the colour blue for hyperlinks.
DQ5Er TIL of the 80's Japanese punk band 'Hanatarash', famous for their live shows. Before being banned by most venues they had used a machete to cleave a dead cat, incidents with circular saws, used excavators to tear down venues, and at one point threatened to throw a molotov cocktail into the crowd
69vQZ TIL that Sweden lost a gold medal in the team dressage event at the 1948 Olympic games in London because one of the riders was "only" a sergeant and not an officer. This rule was subsequently scrapped and from then on civilians could compete, too.
Dpne TIL That Dave Canturbury from “Dual Survival” was fired from the program for lying about his military background and survival training.