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TIL there’s a town called Boring in Oregon, and it’s twinned with a Scottish town called Dull.

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M77pV TIL that the Japanese Red Cross Society was well supported by Empress Shoken and other imperial family members since its inception in 1887 and among other efforts they donated $146,000 in relief funds to San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake.
DQOyD TIL that Mercedes Benz, as in the cars Hitler waved out of during his big parades and the silver Grand Prix racers backed by Nazi Germany, took their name from Mercedes Jellinek, the Jewish Austrian daughter of their pre war importer to France.
NX6E TIL there is only one female Dwarf described in Tolkien’s works and she is only included because her sons, Fili and Kili, died a heroic death.
gjvy TIL The Library of Alexandria “borrowed” works to be copied for their collection then returned, but instead the library gave the lender the copy and kept the original
NXJe TIL in 1939, the Nazis had named their annual rally the “Rally of Peace”, to reiterate to the German people & the world their desire for peace. But it was cancelled on short notice. Why? One day before the scheduled “Rally of Peace”, Germany attacked Poland and ignited WWII