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TIL the Vatican has the World’s highest crime rate

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PPPV TIL that while the American Government interned 110,000 people of Japanese decent living in America (including American citizens) the 442nd Infantry Regiment (composed of almost entirely of people of Japanese descent) became the most decorated infantry regiment in the history of the US Army.
WodL TIL In 1963,a CIA-funded psychiatrist, Dr. Ewen Cameron managed to completely wipe a woman’s memory by using electroshocks and hallucinogens over a 86 day period..
5Voy8 TIL Alaska pays a yearly dividend to full-time residents, amounting most recently to $1,312 in 2023 and $3,284 in 2022.
WkjLY TIL Georgia Governor Talmadge may have been integral in promoting infamous 1946 lynchings and was investigated by the FBI
VZxD TIL that there is an area in the mid-Pacific ocean called White Shark Cafe where sharks travel to and loiter for no identified reason despite there being little food there and it being a sharks’ equivalent of a desert.