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TIL: Hawaii was in Oceania not in North America

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9ddp TIL that Oliver Twist (1948) was banned in Israel for antisemitism and ironically in Egypt for being too sympathetic with Jews.
Y79rA TIL about Richard Sakakida, an American spy operating in the Philippines before the attack on Pearl Harbor, who spied on the Japanese community in Manila before he was captured after the fall of Corregidor. During his capture, he was tortured and eventually led a jailbreak of about 500 prisoners.
rR8a4 TIL about the Libet experiment, a controversial and groundbreaking study on free will that demonstrated that there was unconscious brain activity before the conscious decision to perform an act
JZxQ TIL there is a geocache on the International Space Station
xXm0 TIL Hand crank vibrators were popular in the 1900s