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TIL there is a book written by an Italian artist that describes an unknown world, and uses an alphabet and language that has never been deciphered.

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P1A5G TIL of the Chichijima incident, 1944, where nine American airmen were shot down. Japanese soldiers ate 4 of them. The only survivor was George H.W. Bush
p8G4e TIL that in Japan male students can confess their love to another person by giving them the second button from the top of their school uniform. The second button is the one closest to the heart.
wL9WW TIL Chroniclers of Germanic peoples traced the ancestry of their kings back to the god Wōden (Odin). If such descents were true, Queen Elizabeth II would be a descendant of Woden, via the kings of Wessex.
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