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Til that Tokugawa Ieyasu ordered one of his sons to kill himself.

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p895Q TIL that the Pink Triangle, a symbol for gay pride, was originally used to denote homosexuals in concentration camps. Because the symbol also identified other “sexual undesirables,” gay men were often left imprisoned when Allied troops liberated others from the camps.
OoMgX TIL that Samurai wore clothes dyed with indigo because it makes them antibacterial, flame resistant up to 1500 degrees Fahrenheit, and repels odor and dirt.
OEYR TIL At 26 locations across Canada, 35,046 German soldiers, sailors, airmen and potential insurgents were incarcerated under a program one later called “the best thing that happened to me.” A estimate 6,000 wanted to stay in Canada after the War.
VMVkk TIL of Charles "Charlie" Brown, a B-17F (Ye Olde Pub) pilot in WWII, and Franz Stigler, a BF 109 Messerschmitt pilot, who had escorted Ye Olde Pub out of German airspace.
67dm TIL that when a whale dies and its carcass falls into the Bathyal or Abyssal zone of the ocean floor, it can sustain a complex localized ecosystem of deep-sea organisms for decades. This is called a “whale fall”.