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TIL Japan was a democracy before WW2

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neDLW TIL the German parliament decided to suspend compulsory military service from 1 July 2011. However, the end of compulsory military service applies only in peacetime, and it can be reactivated in the event of tension or defence.
6xkw TIl that Alboin, King of the Lombards took his wife Rosamund as a spoil of war after he killed her father in War. At one point he made her drink from her father’s skull, which he kept as a trophy and fashioned into a mug, telling her to “drink merrily with your father.” She had him assassinated.
9wDmX TIL in No Country for Old Men one of the characters says "Here a while back in San Antonio they shot and killed a federal judge", which is a reference to a 1979 assassination committed by Woody Harrelson’s father, for which he received 2 life sentences
edRD TIL that Dr. Seuss published a NSFW book in 1939. He wanted to draw “the sexiest-looking women” he could but its failure caused him to abandon the adult audience and focus on children’s books instead.
GYm8N TIL that the Philippines' actual independence was also July 4, but in 1962 it was changed to June 12, likely to spite the US.