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TIL in 1960, the chairman of the Japanese Socialist Party was assassinated during a televised debate by a man wielding a samurai sword.

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Zp7jv TIL that during WWII, the Maharaja of Nawanagar rehabilitated approximately 600 Poles, the most of whom were orphaned children and women. The majority of the countries refused entry to the ship carrying them, including the then-British Governor of Bombay.
m4yy TIL that the word “fancy” in “fancy ketchup” refers its higher specific gravity in comparison to “standard ketchup.”
5V97D TIL embalming was popularized in the United States by the need to transport the bodies of Civil War soldiers home for burial and especially by the display and transport of Abraham Lincoln's body after his assassination.
wdn1 TIL: Color-Coded Plastic Ties Tell You Day Your Bread Was Baked, blue for Monday, green for Tuesday, red for Thursday, white for Friday, and yellow for Saturday.
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