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TIL Clark Gable nearly boycotted the Atlanta premiere of Gone with the Wind because his African-American co-star Hattie McDaniel was not allowed to attend

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eo4k TIL that the last Nazi soldiers to surrender in World War II did so on September 4, 1945 - two days after the official Japanese surrender.
NDo1 TIL that a Filipino Senator once spoke for 18 straight hours to stall for time while waiting for a member of his party to arrive to cast the deciding vote on the control of the Senate. After the outspoken Senator was done, the arriving senator voted against his own party.
ObWL TIL that in 120, Genghis Khan was shot in the neck during a battle, and asked the defeated army who had shot “his horse”, trying to downplay the injury. The archer voluntarily confessed to shooting Genghis Khan and refused to beg for mercy, so the Khan spared him, turning him into a great general.
Z8rnY TIL In a temperate climate, a human body can completely decompose into a skeleton in 3 weeks to several years. If undisturbed by animals, acids in fertile soils can dissolve human skeletons in around 20 years. In sand or neutral soil, the skeleton can remain intact for hundreds of years.
D191J TIL that in Jamaica, homosexual activity is punishable with up to a decade in prison. However, this law only applies to men, so lesbian activity is legal.