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TIL Japan was a democracy before WW2

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6kj7 TIL that after George H.W. Bush, a Naval Aviator, was shot down and rescued by a submarine in WWII, he lived aboard that submarine for a month, assisting in the rescue of other aviators.
dmAj TIL that the Skype was initially named as “Sky peer-to-peer”, which was then abbreviated to “Skyper”.
Oo61a TIL in 1957 a governor used the national guard to block black students entering a desegregated school. Elizabeth Eckford mistakenly arrived on her own and was hounded by an angry mob. The 101st airborne was summoned by the president who protected her and 8 other black students while at school.
8NgZ TIL that many Cherokee Indians sided and fought with the Confederacy during the American Civil War, both because many were black slave owners themselves and also because they resented the Union for their treatment during the Trail of Tears.
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