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TIL in June 1942, Japan launched an invasion of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, marking the only military campaign of WWII to take place in North America

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l4kG TIL the children’s television show “Arthur” did a parody of “South Park”, where aliens come to earth, abduct and try to eat Arthur, but don’t due to his high cholesterol.
l6Oa TIL between 1966 and 1970, Warner Bros. and Atlantic Records, Elektra Records, Nonesuch Records, and DC Comics were all acquired by a company that ran parking lots. This company later became Warner Communications, and eventually Time Warner.
5YmEB TIL that if you add 250ml of water to 250ml of alcohol, you get less than 500ml of liquid. This is due to strong hydrogen bonding between the different molecules drawing them close together, and that ethanol molecules are smaller than water molecules, so they fill in the spaces between the water.
78egx TIL from 1887 to 1950, meteorologists in the US were forbidden from using the word “tornado” in their forecasts. Experts at the time thought doing so would create mass panic.
P1JNG TIL that The only difference between a hurricane and a typhoon is the location where the storm occurs. Hurricanes are from the Atlantic and Typhoons are from the Pacific.