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TIL That one of the only top government officials who opposed Japanese internment during World War II was...J. Edgar Hoover.

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awNEo TIL Andrea Bocelli has been blind since he was 12, when he was hit in the eye by a soccer ball which caused a brain hemorrhage. Doctors tried leeches as a last resort but unfortunately were unsuccessful.
VMAY4 TIL in 2004 Morse code got its first update in 60 years, with the addition of the symbol "@". The new code takes twice as long as spelling out the word "at".
dDw5E TIL the Hudson's Bay Company still exists, and owns Sak's Fifth Avenue
JEQV TIL of Ali Maow Maalin. In 1978, he became the last person on earth to contract naturally occurring Smallpox. He spent his life working to eradicate Polio, and unfortunately died from Malaria in 2013.
KJkE TIL that a man named Tsutomu Yamaguchi was on a business trip in Hiroshima when the atomic bomb dropped. He was wounded, but returned to his hometown of Nagasaki, where the very next day the second atomic bomb was dropped. He survived both blasts and lived to 93.