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TIL Horton Hears a Who, by Dr. Seuss, is an allegory for post-WWII US occupation of Japan. Seuss, who was vehemently anti-Japanese during the conflict, had a drastic change of heart after visiting postwar Japan. He dedicated the book to a Japanese friend.

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nWlD7 TIL a high school student, Johanna Mankiewicz, wrote Albert Einstein for his help on a geometry problem. In order not to divulge the entire solution, Einstein’s response only added to her confusion, resulting in a newspaper headline, “Einstein flunks out as geometry teacher.”
gMo97 TIL North Korea plays basketball with different rules. Slam Dunks are 3 pts, Three-point “nothing but net” shots are worth 4 pts, and teams lose points when they miss free throws.
1NgX TIL Sweden has become so efficient at recycling that they have run out of garbage to recycle and now import garbage from Norway to fuel it’s energy programs.
GYmyN TIL that descendants of the artist Diego Velazquez (1599-1660) include the current monarchs of Belgium, Sweden and the Netherlands.
7rZPO TIL, during the Norway 2011 shootings, an innocent teenager originally from Chechnya, Russia, was arrested and interrogated as a suspect because he did not react with the same level of tears and hysteria as the other survivors.