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TIL Japan bombed Oregon twice during WW2, then invited the pilot to visit the town 20 years later.

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oBj8R TIL the antibacterial soaps are not better than regular soaps, in fact studies show that antibacterial soaps causes the bacteria to increase its antibiotic resistance.
Ok5a TIL a Miami Gardens store owner sued the city for harassment by police. One of his employees has been stopped and questioned 258 times in 4 years and arrested 62 times for “trespassing” at the store during his shift.
4Xwja TIL that several former Nazis, including Adolf Heusinger, who served as acting Chief of Staff of the Army for Nazi Germany, and Johannes Steinhoff, who was one of the highest scoring Luftwaffe pilots, took high level positions within NATO after World War II.
ADXX7 TIL of the "Japanese Schindler," Chiune Sugihara, a diplomat who went against orders to save 6000 Jewish lives during the Holocaust
85xb TIL that a shabby-looking coat was needed during the filming of the Wizard of Oz, so the production crew looked at a second-hand store. There they bought a coat that was later found to be previously owned by L. Frank Baum, the author of the Wizard of Oz.