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TIL the official Senate document used to declare war on Germany in WWII was the same one used for Japan with Germany just penciled in.

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XymR TIL that in 1982 a scientist discovered an ‘impossible’ structure of matter and was universally mocked by the scientific community. In 2011, Dr. Shechtman was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry.
9Y9YQ TIL that Sweden has 267,570 islands, making it the country in the world with the most islands
wLDPo TIL that da Vinci painted 2 Mona Lisas. The older one was hidden in a vault until 2012.
6Ermm TIL that in Japan the cinema genre "Spaghetti Western" has been changed in "Macaroni Western" because in Japan spaghetti are conceptually "thin and meager", far from the iconic stories told in the movies.
p8orb TIL about an African American man who was shot by authorities during a protest in Boston. His name was Crispus Attucks, and he took two musket balls in the chest. First death of the American Revolution. Attucks was said to be exhibiting "mad behavior" and his shooters were acquitted.