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TIL Tea kettles have been around for thousands of years.

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ONDL TIL that Japan didn’t sign the 1929 Geneva convention on treatment of POWs, and nearly half of all Americans captured by the Japanese in WW2 were killed in custody.
pYJO8 TIL Sun Yat-sen's translator Dai Jitao had a son from an affair who he gave to Chiang Kai-shek for adoption to avoid scandal. The son, christened Chiang Wei-kuo, later led a Panzer division during Anschluss. He was called home to China to fight the Japanese just before Germany invaded Poland.
EjNP TIL although Iceland is considered politically as part of Europe, it is geographically North American and European at the same time, due to the fact that half of Iceland belongs to the Eurasian plate and the other half to the North American plate.
PYBPw TIL In 2014 a three-year-old was rescued after 11 days in the Siberian wilderness thanks to her puppy, which she held onto for warmth. She was found less than 100 feet from her search party.
DQ4XP TIL A family owned company that's been recreating discontinued candies have brought Creme Savers back!