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TIL That the Hostages Involved in the Iran Hostage Crisis Were Given Lifetime Passes to MLB Games

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mxlMy TIL a Japanese submarine was sunk in WW2 because American sailors were throwing potatoes at it
0dJ7L TIL Between 1945 and 1965, the number of people under British rule outside the UK itself fell from 700 million to five million.
R7kXj TIL: The eruption of mount vesuvius, which decimated pompeii, occoured on 24 August AD 79, just one day after Vulcanalia, the festival of the Roman god of fire, including that from volcanoes.
mLpY TIL of Iqbal Masih (1983-1995), a Pakistani child who, at age four, was sold into bondage by his family, escaped after years of hardship and helped thousands of children flee bondage labor through his internatioal activism. He was assasinated at age 12.
v1Zmj TIL of the Japanese Economic Miracle whereby Japan's GDP went from $91 billion in 1965 to $1.065 trillion in 1980 & was the world's 2nd largest economy. This was achieved through "shūshin koyō" or the guarantee of employment in big corporations & highly unionized blue-collar jobs.