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a8PgJ TIL Yoko Ono’s uncle Toshikazu Kase was a high ranking Imperial Japanese civil servant and diplomat that was present at the 1945 surrender ceremony on the USS Missouri and was Japans first ambassador to the UN.
aw5L TIL Alexander the Great expressed in his last will and testament the desire to see “transplant of populations from Asia to Europe and in the opposite direction from Europe to Asia, in order to bring the largest continent to common unity and to friendship by means of intermarriage and family ties.”
0YmL TIL that the pirate captain Benjamin Hornigold once attacked a ship just to replace his crew’s hats. They got drunk the previous night and they tossed theirs overboard.
R7Aw TIL the English name for the color Orange is named after the Orange fruit, and the color was originally, “Geoluard”
4XKbw TIL That after a two-year impasse with no new Pope, the Cardinals elected a hermit monk who sent them an angry letter, threatening them with divine judgement. He became Celestine V. He served for five months before implementing a law that allowed Popes to abdicate. He abdicated a week later.