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TIL that Woodrow Wilson personally rejected a proposal put forward by Japan during the Paris Peace Conference that would have confirmed the racial and ethnic equality of all people

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PLAL TIL that millions of spiders completely cocooned trees in silk after the unprecedented 2010 flooding in Pakistan.
7rvl7 TIL Paul McCartney wrote the melody to the song "Yesterday" before the lyrics. He used placeholder lyrics for the song, titled "Scrambled Eggs" instead: "Scrambled eggs/Oh my baby how I love your legs/Not as much as I love scrambled eggs".
LB9V TIL: After WWII, the British sold off captured Enigma machines to third world countries, who still believed it to be secure, so that they could spy on them.
gM664 TIL that using jet air hand dryers in toilets/restrooms dispersed 20 times more pathogens than regular hot air dryers. This number increases to 190 times when compared to paper towels.
WXd TIL The StarWars Kid filed a $250,000 Lawsuit against the families of students who uploaded the video