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TIL Vanilla Ice was the 6th best jetskier in the world and was so good he was sponsored by Kawasaki

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Y6Zx TIL During World War II, prisoners of war in Canada were treated so nicely that they didn’t want to leave Canada when they were released.
0MWL TIL cultural baggage may cause plane crashes and mountain climbing disasters. In a study of 5,000 Himalayan expeditions, scientists found that Chinese alpinists, for instance, were more likely to die on the mountain than Austrians.
lymK TIL that in 1893 Hawaii’s monarchy was overthrown when a group of businessmen and sugar planters forced the queen to abdicate. The coup led to the dissolving of the Kingdom of Hawaii two years later, its annexation as a U.S. territory and eventual admission as the 50th state in the union.
X0Zrk TIL “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself” is a famous line from Franklin D. Roosevelt's first inaugural address. Roosevelt said this in his speech to help Americans regain faith in themselves during the Great Depression.
ONDL TIL that Japan didn’t sign the 1929 Geneva convention on treatment of POWs, and nearly half of all Americans captured by the Japanese in WW2 were killed in custody.