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TIL Japan was a democracy before WW2

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oBmMR TIL Honey is the only food that doesnt go bad honey that was buried with the Pharoahs is still safe to eat
wxaW TIL that SEAL Team Six was named so to confuse the Soviets about the actual number of SEAL Teams that were operating. At the time there were only two.
4xxo TIL that Wales’ national symbol is a leek because on the eve of the battle against the Saxons, St David advised the Britons to wear leeks in their caps so as to easily distinguish friend from foe. This helped to secure a great victory.
b9gB9 TIL that groundbreaking new cancer therapies ramp up the body's own immune system to eradicate cancer cells. One promising immunotherapy method, known as CAR T, has shown incredible success in clinical trials with children when most other options have failed.
dk9E TIL that the only nation to commit a total genocide and exterminate the entirety of a race is not some dictatorial genocidal government, it was the British who exterminated every Tasmanian Aborigine.