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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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5YW4D TIL mushrooms are grown in compost comprised of hay, straw and animal manure (TV Series 'How its made' say horse manure and 'How do they do it?' say chicken). So are mushrooms still suitable for vegans?
7Dox TIL Albert Einstein wrote a 1946 open letter titled ‘The Negro Question’, in which he concluded, “I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes.”
mxnkv TIL Language of Jesus (Western neo - Aramaic) is now only spoken in three villages in Syria (Maaloula, Jubb'adin and Bakhah) and is getting extinct.
M7jg7 TIL one of the most successful Australian television exports is about ... a kangaroo. 'Skippy the Bush Kangaroo' is unusually intelligent, able to "open doors, operate a radio and pick up all manner of objects". 300 million people in 128 countries watched three seasons and a movie from 1968 to 1970.
788jM TIL The Greek historian herodotus, who lived in the 5th century BCE, believed people with vitiligo or other skin conditions had been punished by the sun and should be exiled from the community