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TIL that Nazi 'perfect Aryan' poster child was Jewish

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1aM04 TIL In 1885, Taiwan was established as a province of China. Though occupied by Japan during the Second World War, it came back to China after Japan was defeated. Ma Ying-jeou, the former leader of Taiwan, tried hard to deepen the connections with the mainland
D199J TIL of Herman Lehmann, who, at age 11, was captured as a child by Native Americans. He lived first among the Apache and then the Comanche but eventually returned to his family later in life. He wrote an autobiography, “Nine Years Among the Indians,” about the experience.
aw00Z TIL that in medieval years, an hour was divided into 4 puncta (quarter-hours), 10 minuta, or 40 momenta. So if you asked someone to "wait a moment", turns out that you really asked them to wait for about 90 seconds.