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TIL Simon and Garfunkel met at primary school

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6xBW TIL The first Akita to be introduced to the United States was a dog named Kamikaze-go, who was given to Helen Keller as a gift after she visited Japan in 1937.
loLxa TIL about the last large scale battle of World War 2. The defeat of the Japanese/Manchurian Kwangtung army, by Soviet forces.
OGMyR TIL Astronomer Rudolf Wolf observed sunspots through a telescope for 46 years from 1847 and managed to reconstruct historical records back to 1610. His sunspot number monitoring work continued at the Zürich Observatory until 1979
b6ljN TIL: Sockets aren't perfectly hexagonal, but are rounded in the corners to prevent rounding of nuts. (And that this was a result of developing tools for working on aircraft in wartime).
oL6Y TIL that Photoshop will reject an image of money due to anti-counterfeit measures