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TIL during world war ll because of food shortage and post-war factors , The Shiba Inu nearly became extinct . all dogs today are bred from the only three surviving bloodlines.

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Z8oV4 TIL that in 1829, nineteen Australian convicts revolted and seized a ship near Tasmania, which they then sailed to Japan. Though they offered gifts, including a boomerang, the Japanese expelled them and they ended up being recaptured in China.
8amJV TIL there are many countries that still have charges, trials and sentencing for witchcraft.
0dMGA TIL of Dora Richter, the first transgender woman to have received GRS in 1922/1931 in Germany. She had survived the nazi regime despite the destruction of the sexual research institute and lived to 1966
nemvo TIL the world's most expensive bottle of vodka was stolen and found empty at a construction site
OoOr1 TIL the ice cream brand Häagen-Dazs is a completely fabricated foreign name. The actual company founders were New York Jews who wanted a Danish-sounding brand name to honor Danes after WWII.