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TIL that Brazil has the largest Japanese population outside of Japan, with over 2 million people.

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xVYKw TIL about Diego the Hood Island giant tortoise, who was one of the 15 individuals of his kind that were left in 1976. Through a captive breeding effort, he fathered 900 offspring which helped increase the wild population to 2,000. Last year, he was released back into the wild.
PYmgn TIL Nurhachi was originally defeated by Yuan Chonghuan of the Ming Dynasty. The disintegration of the Ming Dynasty was closely linked to economic decline.
QJylX TIL of a man in south India who upon realizing that his wife use a rag during her periods made a cheap easy-to-use affordable machine to produce sanitary pads.
JnYj TIL there is a monument in Georgia with an instruction to genocide, with an unmarked time capsule, and no one knows who erected it in 1979.
B7Bx TIL that maple syrup is essentially anti-freeze for trees.