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TIL that in keeping with Ireland’s neutrality policy in WW2, the Irish Prime Minister (Taoiseach) expressed his condolences to the German ambassador when Hitler committed suicide

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dOKB TIL that Edo-era Japanese samurais considered homosexuality as honorable, and teaches them virtue unlike the love of women was causing a “feminizing effect” and was deemed a necessity.
p8GrA TIL women in Ontario are allowed to be topless in public, especially on the streets of Toronto
BrGGy TIL Operation Cobra was the codename for an offensive launched by the United States First Army under Lieutenant General Omar Bradley seven weeks after the D-Day landings, during the Normandy campaign of World War II.
W7g6B TIL that castrated lions often have little to no mane due to low testosterone
vPek4 TIL: The Epic of Gilgamesh – written 700 BCE – resembles various themes, plot elements, and characters from the Hebrew Bible. Notably, the accounts of the Garden of Eden, the advice from Ecclesiastes, and the Genesis flood narrative.