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TIL when the US government began to arrange prisoner exchanges with Japan during WWII it found that less than 10% of the people on Japan's list wanted to be repatriated. It then forged an agreement with 15 Latin American countries to ship their ethnic Japanese to the USA to expand its hostage pool

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BgM7r TIL that a French Soldier called Albert Severin Roche, had personally captured 1,180 prisoners. He was called the "first soldier of France" by allied supreme commander Marechal Foch
VMbW8 TIL Rev. Rul. 69-68, 1969-1 C.B. 153, holds that gambling (even if illegal) is a proper activity for social clubs (Fraternities) exempt under IRC 501(c)(7) because it supplies pleasure and recreation to members and guests, even if it has an additional purpose of raising money.
9wK6m TIL that there is an urban legend that the British Board of Film Classification would reject any film which contained a penis which looked more erect than the Kintyre peninsula in Scotland
m1jXR TIL the cocoa leaves used to make Coca Cola have the cocaine removed at the Stepan Company plant in Maywood, NJ. It is the only company legally allowed to import & process them. The extracted cocaine is sold to Mallinckrodt to be refined for medicinal use.
60Xm TIL that during the Second Angle-Afghan War, Afghan women would use an execution method against the British where they would prop the soldiers mouth open to prevent swallowing and then take turns urinating into the soldiers mouth to drown him with urine