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TIL Chairman Mao told the Japanese PM in 1972 not to apologise for what Japan did in WW2 because they destroyed the Nationalists and helped them come to power.

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ND1J TIL that the pangolin is the only mammal with scales and it’s also the most illegally traded wild mammal on the planet, and is in danger of being eaten to extinction.
Z8Lo TIL that Ayn Rand spent the last 6 years of her life on Social Security and Medicare, after a lifetime of condemning both programs.
rRPmW TIL that English and American Suffragettes, in attempt to create attention to their cause, terrorized golf courses. They swapped hole flags, ambushed players like the Prime Minister and Winston Churchill, and wrote "Votes for Women," "Votes or War," "No votes, no golf" on the green by using Acid.
VMam8 TIL that in 2009, Trevor Noah’s mother Patricia was shot by his stepfather Ngisaveni after she married another man. When confronting him over the phone about the incident, Trevor moved to the United States after Ngisaveni threatened to kill him.
PY4n TIL There was a scam called the “Spanish prison letter,” where victims received letters claiming to be written by a previously unknown Wealthy relative trapped in a Spanish prison. the prisoner would promise to share his fortune with the victim if they could manage to send the bail money.