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TIL World War 2 is technically still going on, as Japan and Russia have yet to sign a peace treaty with each other. Additionally, both countries continue to lay claim to the Southern Kurile Islands - efforts to diffuse the situation have been unsuccessful.

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69KVQ TIL The father of actor Woody Harrieson, known for roles such as Zombieland, No Country For Old Men, and the Hunger Games film series ect., was a notorious hitman. Harrieson was raised from an early age by his mom, and only found out about his fathers crimes when he was listening to the radio.
b9J6E TIL that there exists a bodyguard crew of rangers in Belize, known as the Scarlet Six Biomonitoring Team, who camp out in inclement weather, night and day for the 5-month long portion of the Scarlet Macaw breeding season when chicks are being cared for, dedicated to stopping insane poaching levels.
N7jnM TIL Former Inside the Actor's Studio host James Lipton revealed that he worked as a pimp when he lived in Paris during the 1950s. He explained that after World War II, it was a different time and that pimps in France did not exploit sex workers, but acted more as their agents.
epyV4 TIL that "Killing baby Hitler" is an ethical and theoretical physics experiment. It explores the idea of time-traveling to assassinate infant Adolf Hitler, delving into ethical consequences and temporal paradoxes.
gKd7 TIL a 50 year old man in Colorado got arrested for brutally killing two raccoons to avenge the death of his cat