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TIL George Takai was in a Japanese Internment Camp during WWII.

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VM7Rk TIL in 1857 Charles Lockock, believing there to be a cause-effect relationship between masturbation and seizures, began to treat his patients with potassium bromide which was known to reduce sex drive. In doing so, he serendipitously discovered what would become the first drug therapy for epilepsy.
Eb80 TIL there is another country inside Rome besides the Vatican. It has 3 inhabitants.
PYadg TIL that Winter Storms in the United States are named solely by the Weather Channel and not recognized by other agencies including the National Weather Service.
yVVm8 TIL that Trans-Atlantic civilian travel was still accessible during the early stages of WW2, with the SS Drottningholm conducting service between New York, USA and Gothenburg, Sweden
x9P7 TIL a group of Muslims from a York mosque managed to pacify an English Defense League rally by offering the protesters tea, biscuits, and a chance to play football inside with worshipers