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TIL Indian revolutionary, Rash Behari Bose who fought to overthrow British rule was sheltered by a prominent bakery couple in Japan and had met with Sun Yat-Sen

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R74N9 TIL about Maroons, enslaved Africans who quickly escaped in the countries they were brought to and often joined indigenous populations to form warrior tribes with their own complex language, war and living cultures. Many Maroon warfare tactics have been co-opted into global army training today.
4VEw TIL in 1933, a Japanese School Girl committed suicide by jumping into a volcanic crater on the island of Oshima. This act started a bizarre trend in Japan, and in the following year 944 other people (804 men and 140 women) leapt into the same crater.
EgJyw TIL about the Voyager Golden Records, two vinyl records included aboard the two voyager spacecraft launched in 1977, that contained sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth, intended for any intelligent extraterrestrial life form who may find them.
rNJZy TIL a common answer to "how are you?" in French is "Ça roule ma poule" which translates to "it rolls my chicken"
w9RE TIL Henry Ford was an anti Semite who wrote International Jew, and caused some Germans to become anti Semitic after reading this book.