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TIL The Animaniacs Nations of the World only took one take

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6Qol TIL Ranald Macdonald a Chinook/Scottish man, ventured to Japan despite knowing of the strict isolationist policy. He pretended to shipwreck on an island, where he was caught and sent to Nagasaki. There, he managed to convince the Daimyo that he could be of value as Japan’s first English teacher.
VMwKG TIL that “With extraordinary few exceptions, no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the Earth was flat,”
rRg1e TIL that Traute Lafrenz, a member of the famous and heroic White Rose resistance group in Nazi Germany, is still alive at age 102 and living in South Carolina.
v1jLK TIL that the name Vanessa was invented by Jonathan Swift for Esther Vanhomrigh who was a longtime lover of his. The name was created by taking "Van" from Vanhomrigh and adding "Essa", a pet form of Esther.
o1Lr TIL that before Alcoa could build an aluminum smelting plant in Iceland, the government had to certify that the area was “elf-free”.