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TIL that a Japanese pilot who attacked a town in Oregon during WWII returned 20 years later to present his family’s 400-year-old sword as a symbol of regret.

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LQx40 TIL that if a woman with a negative blood type is pregnant with a baby with a positive blood type, and it's the mother's second or subsequent pregnancy. Her body will develop antibodies that will fight the baby as if it were an infection.
8VnP TIL in the 1940’s Stetson Kennedy went undercover as a Klansman, gave Klan passwords to the writers of the popular “Superman” radio show, who used them in a story line in which Superman fights the KKK. Kennedy has been dubbed “the greatest single contributor to the weakening of the Ku Klux Klan”
9am6 TIL that during the Falklands War a 37km “Red Cross Box” safe zone for hospital ships hosted 4 British and 3 Argentine vessels, which often cooperated to save wounded combatants
AN9J4 TIL Judge Alex Kozinski, who ruled on the early 2000s Mattel, Inc. v. MCA Records, Inc. (Barbie Girl song) dismissed the case; concluded his ruling by saying, "The parties are advised to chill”.
XDDk TIL that Agent Scully on The X-Files is implied on multiple occasions to be immortal