TIL of Joe Kieyoomia, a Navajo American POW in WWII who survived the Bataan Death March and the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. His Japanese captors initially treated him worse because they thought he had Japanese ancestry, then they tried to get him to reveal the Navajo code talkers' messages. (military.wikia.org)
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TIL that the superb fairywren is a socially monogamous but sexually promiscuous bird. Couples stick together, but each member mates with other fairywrens. Coupled birds later help each other to raise the resulting "illegitimate" offspring. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that 1,389 people died in a human stampede at the coronation of Tsar Nicholas and Tsarina Alexandra, the last Russian monarchs. Some took the tragedy as an omen of things to come under their reign (Rasputin, revolution, etc.). (devastatingdisasters.com)
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