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TIL the Yakuza operate openly in Japan: they have offices, make charitable donations, and even have large investments in mainstream companies

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m1E1v TIL Tom Morello (guitarist for Rage Against the Machine) attended Harvard for college, where he won the Ivy League Battle of the Bands with Carolyn Bertozzi, a 2022 Nobel Prize laureate, on keyboards
W769 TIL just how historically inaccurate Braveheart actually was. Prince Edward II (by then the king) didn’t marry Isabella of France until 3 years after William Wallace was hung, drawn, and quartered. She was 13 years old.
R51Y6 TIL the Robert Frost poem “The Road Not Taken” was originally written as a joke, and is a criticism/deeper analysis of the idea that taking the “less travelled path” can improve one’s life
oRGZ7 TIL:The Royal Ethiopian Regiment fought on the British side of the American Revolutionary War. The unit was formed and commanded by the Royal Governor of Virginia The Right Honourable John Murray the Earl of Dunmore by proclamation & was raised from local "indentured servants, negros or others"[sic]
xVvbw TIL Eight "Sea Shepherd" activists were arrested in 1979 for violating the Seal Protection Act, for spraying a thousand seal pups with permanent red dye; rendering their pelts useless for hunters.