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TIL Mark Twain outlived his wife and all but one of his four children

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D8Vp TIL in Japan, if someone is photographed or filmed while handcuffed, their hands have to be pixelated when used on TV or in the newspapers due to the implied guilt being pictured in handcuffs.
wJwE TIL a US Navy POW blinked the word ‘torture’ in morse code during a forced TV interview in North Vietnam to signal his conditions to the Office of Naval Intelligence
lMj7 TIL 40% of Vietnamese people have the surname ‘Nguyen’
kJ481 TIL that ‘Persepolis’ - Marjane Satrapi’s autobiography of her childhood during the Iranian Revolution - has faced numerous attempts at banning the book from schools and libraries. Every attempt has failed.
R7kA6 TIL that most Koreans do not use deodorant due to a gene called ABCC11, which prevents sweat from producing odor.