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TIL Three Japanese sailors in 1832 were caught in a storm, stranded at sea for 14 months and shipwrecked on current day Cape Flattery. Making them the first Japanese people in the Pacific Northwest.

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wNA6 TIL Between 2000-2015, Google had an informal motto of “Don’t be evil”. The idea was to have a motto that “once you put it in there, would be hard to take out”. When Google began to track users in 2012, there was a public backlash to the motto. The motto was replaced by “Do the right thing” in 2015.
16b8 TIL that the Beatles released their first single, “Love Me Do,” 50 years ago today.
PYPZE TIL a study was conducted involving separating infant twins through an adoption agency to study nature vs nurture . The twins involved in the experiment were never given knowledge of the study and the findings never published. The records are contained at Yale and will not be released until 2066.
jNXpN TIL that one of the first American spies was a women during the Revolutionary War. To this day, her identity is not known and is referred to only as Agent 355.
bxg7 TIL Matt Stone and Trey Parker Paid $300,000 Themselves So Paramount Pictures Wouldn’t Force Them To Have Kidd Rock Make a Song for The South Park Movie For MTV in 1999.