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TIL of Hugh Clowers Thompson Jr. - a United States Army Major, and a former warrant officer in the 123rd Aviation Battalion of the 23rd Infantry Division, who's been credited with ending one of the United States' greatest war crimes- the Mỹ Lai Massacre, in Sơn Mỹ, Vietnam

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dDvO9 TIL that Wales is one unit anomalously divided Into "North Wales" and "South Wales", while it 'should' be "Northern Wales" and "Southern Wales"
p8QDp TIL There is a park in Amsterdam called Vondelpark where adults were legally allowed to have sex in the park, as long as they took their garbage with them afterwards and never had intercourse near the playground. Sexual activities were to be limited to the evening hours and night.
Y77Jx TIL Mercedes-Benz's three-pointed star started out as a symbol that Gottlieb Daimler, the founder of Mercedes' parent company Daimler, marked his house with on a postcard.
jGBR TIL: In the ‘50s, Lee was engaged to Henriette von Rosen, daughter of Count Fritz von Rosen. After hiring private detectives to investigate the actor and demanding references, the Count refused to allow his daughter to marry him unless Lee got the blessing of the King of Sweden. Lee got it.
kOJ64 TIL the use of triple parentheses, or triple brackets, also known as an (((echo))), is an antisemitic symbol that has been used to highlight the names of individuals of a Jewish background.