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TIL The Phillipines was a colony of the USA during WWII and was attacked by Japanese forces after Pearl Harbor in the same day

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jNWAR TIL Cato the Elder(a notoriously uptight grouch) expelled a man from the roman senate for embracing his wife in public and in front of their daughter. Cato went on to say that he never hugs his own wife, except during thunderstorms, and added that "thunderstorms make him a really happy man"
oB5QE TIL that J.R.R. Tolkien orginally set out to just create a language. Elfish. He then figured that that language needed a history. That history needed a world etc. Which eventually led to him writing LOTR in said world.
nWZxd TIL Astronaut John Young smuggled a corned beef sandwich aboard the Gemini 3 mission in 1965 but the unapproved snack crumbled, creating crumbs that floated in the cabin, leading to a NASA reprimand and rules against it
j6jMn TIL that the Italian mafia's scammed people with counterfeit olive oil. It's lucrative but less risky than smuggling drugs.
BdLk TIL Loki was the god of wildfire and mischief, he once bet his head and lost, however he got away with it because to have his head, his neck would have to be cut, his neck was not part of the deal.