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TIL that the world record for keeping a pair of ferrets in your pants is 5 hours and 30 minutes

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QJAma TIL about Wizard Island, an island created from a volcanic eruption inside the lake of an older volcanic eruption's caldera
BrkKK TIL in 1998 the Vietnam Unknown remains were removed from the Arlington Tomb of the Unknown Soldier after the serviceman's identity became known through DNA testing.
epZR4 TIL Japan's new PM Shigeru Ishiba is a moderate conservative, for same-sex marriage, a fan of cooking, especially curries, military vehicles, trains and Japanese idols, is part of a Japanese govt. intraparty ramen society, and said he would deploy the JSDF in response to Godzilla.
YY7Z TIL of a 12 year old boy, Hunter Scott, who in the course of doing a history project for school, found enough evidence to lead to a Congressional investigation that ended up exonerating a US Navy ship’s captain for wrongdoing, 55 years after his court martial.
nolr TIL that the biggest scale infiltration of the US government was done by Scientologists to destroy all negative evidence of their creator L. Ron Hubbard. Even with successful prosecution, they are still considered a valid religion and not a terrorist organization.