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TIL that the Germans used Churchill’s famous Tommy Gun portrait as Nazi propaganda

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ZbjR TIL after Douglas MacArthur was relieved of command in the Korean War in 1951, Emperor Hirohito visited him to offer his condolences. It was the first time a Japanese Emperor had ever visited a foreigner who was not a diplomat or royalty
ZNZG TIL that in 2015 a man called into C-SPAN and began talking about West Philadelphia, and got all the way through the first two stanzas of the “Fresh Prince” theme song before being cut off
RYyj TIL 43% of British pilots admitted to falling asleep during flights, 33% of them reported waking up to find that their co-pilots had fallen asleep as well, according to a survey carried between 2010 & 2012 [PDF]
pY1p TIL Norway has very strict rules on advertising cars as “green” - saying “cars can do nothing good for the environment except less damage than others”
YpGxB TIL blond hair among the dark-skinned indigenous people of the Solomon Islands is caused by homegrown genetic variants distinct from the gene that leads to blond hair in Europeans.