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TIL FDR’s face is on the dime because of a foundation he started for polio patients by having people mail dimes to the White House, now known as the March of Dimes

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e0LD4 TIL that in WW2, the Italian submarine “Leonardo Da Vinci” torpedoed the troopship “Empress of Canada”, while on a return journey. The ship sank and half of the resulting 392 deaths were Italian prisoners of war.
OoDOa TIL that ants can literally fall from any height without dying.
YpArx TIL: The game Chinese checkers was created in Germany
jNpAE TIL Since 1991, there are japanese companies which offer family rental services. Actors are hired to act as family members, partners or even parents of clients in need of intimacy and social contact
gMPW TIL that ‘Holland’ is just a province in the Netherlands, and shouldn’t be used to refer to the entire country.