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TIL in 2012 an Oregon woman found a letter from a Chinese labor camp prisoner in a box of Halloween decorations she bought from Kmart. She publicized the letter. The man, who had been released in 2010, saw a news story about it and wrote another letter just for her, thanking her for doing that.

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l7Xp7 TIL that generations of incest turned members of the Fugate family blue. They lived in eastern Kentucky’s Troublesome Creekand their peculiar skin color was caused by a metabolic condition affecting hemoglobin.
6OM8 TIL the city of Dallas, Texas has lost every single one of 82 court cases against the same man, Robert Groden, over several decades.
DQALg TIL that Iceland, despite being neutral, was invaded by the British in WWII.. which eventually led to their independence.
Ooa TIL: That at MIT you can earn your “Pirate Certificate” by taking the physical education courses of pistol, archery, sailing, and fencing.
8eRMZ TIL about the Atomic Energy Lab. A toy lab set created in 1950 so that kids could create and watch nuclear and chemical reactions. However, merely a year later, it was pulled from shelves as it contained real samples of the radioactive element Uranium in it.