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TIL wild marijuana grows all over Northern Japan.

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77vb TIL of Giorgio Perlasca. A meat importer from Padua, Italy. He posed as a Spanish diplomat in Nazi-controlled Hungary in 1944, saving over 5,000 Jews from deportation to the gas chambers. One memorable act saw him stare down Adolph Eichmann who wanted to remove two 12-year-old Jewish children.
x807 TIL there is a 15 minute video of Marilyn Monroe engaging in oral sex with a man that J. Edgar Hoover was convinced was President John Kennedy
d06d TIL: Paris only has one stop sign in the entire city!
AD9yB TIL the famous robocop posters was a painting and not a photograph
OoWY6 TIL the musical/film "The Sound of Music" is based on the true story of the Von Trapp, who escaped Nazi-occupied Austria and went on to become a successful travelling singing act.