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TIL the 2011 Japanese tsunami brought living Japanese wildlife to Canada and the US

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A9pn TIL A Holocaust Survivor enlisted in the U.S Army, he was later taken P.O.W and kept him and his unit alive by sneaking out and stealing food, a skill he learning while in the Mauthausen concentration camp.
QNE9e TIL about Eskimo Ice Cream, made from raw caribou fat, seal oil, berries and snow
BZbL TIL there is a place called California, Pennsylvania, home to California University of Pennsylvania
9MVp TIL ancient Egypt had many medical specialists, including proctologists which were called “shepherds of the anus”.
M1e7 TIL Thomas Jefferson and John Adams once traveled to Stratford-upon-Avon to visit Shakespeare’s birthplace. While there, they took a knife to one of Shakespeare’s chairs so they could take home some wood chips as souvenirs.