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TIL the surprising history of Christmas trees

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jDyX TIL of Castner’s Cutthroats, a platoon of Army scouts who served in the Aleutian Islands Campaign of WW2. The group was composed of trappers, hunters, miners and Native Alaskans. They seldom used ranks and never wore uniforms. In addition to recon missions, they fought in the bloody Battle of Attu.
9YwdQ TIL in 1963 Pennsylvania enacted its first "mandatory reporter" law, by 1967 all 50 states had similar laws, and the 1974 Federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) created Federal expectations for mandatory reporters.
4XgZ5 TIL 50 Cent once bought 200 front row seats to a Ja Rule concert just to leave them empty
Meex7 TIL There's an airline named "Okay Airways", perhaps the most mediocre airline.
b64oE [TIL] When Hideki Tojo was captured by Americans, a dentist secretly put in Morse code "Remember Pearl Harbor" into his pair of dentures