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TIL, UHAUL's founder Leonard Shoen was born on Leap Day, February 29th, and the year he was born on, 1916 is a leap year!

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AD19x TIL working too much is an official cause of death in Japan. Called 'Karoshi' which literally means 'overwork death' it became a hot button issue mid to late 1980s, when several high-ranking businessmen who were still in their prime years suddenly died without any previous sign of illness.
a8YKA TIL that in the 1860s when the US was in Civil War, the French Emperir Napoleon III tried to place an Emperor in Mexico. After th US Civil War ended, members of the conservative Confederacy went into Mexico to support the Emperor while the rest of the US supplied arms to the liberal resistance.
neOVb TIL that doctors were seven times as likely to join the Nazi Party as other employed men in Germany
nBlB TIL of Terry Ryan, a 13 year old Australian schoolboy who was kidnapped along with his friend Peter Aston by two strangers in 1982. Ryan only survived by helping in the assault, live burial and eventual murder of his friend. His kidnappers then dropped him home.
yQ4ya TIL that one of the key early fundraising tools for the Nazi Sturmabteilung was operating their own cigarette company.