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TIL that Japanese playing cards (Hanafuda) have historically highly abstract designs due to a cat-and-mouse style gambling arms race in the 17th to 19th centuries. The government would ban popular sets of cards to prevent gambling, leading to new, more abstract sets being developed.

by whatilearned December 1, 2021, 3:20 am

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TIL that the people of the Åland Islands wanted to be annexed by Sweden, but the Swedish government was preoccupied, so they sent them off to the LoN, where a Japanese-influenced delegation handed them over to Finland with a justification they hoped they could use to justify their own imperialism

by whatilearned November 30, 2021, 5:32 am

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TIL – The US government deported hundreds of anarchists and communists in 1919, fearing a repeat of the Russian revolution

by whatilearned November 29, 2021, 2:12 pm

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Government sponsored vaccination of ww1 troops caused the spanish flu btw.

by CopyPastaArchive November 29, 2021, 5:03 am

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The US Government suddenly decides to remake the US to have only 3 states. What are they named?

by QuestionGuy November 29, 2021, 4:47 am

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TIL The British government banned The Mikado from London during Prince Fushimi Sadanaru’s 1907 visit. The hope was to not cause offense but backfired as the Prince had hoped to see opera during his stay. A Japanese journalist who saw a show was disappointed that the banned play was inoffensive fun.

by whatilearned November 28, 2021, 1:38 pm

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TIL in 1990 the West German government received a message from the Soviet general Geli Batenin, offering to return Kaliningrad. The offer was never seriously considered by the Bonn government, who saw reunification with the East as its priority.

by whatilearned November 26, 2021, 11:18 am

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TIL The US Government passed the Stolen Valor Act in 2005. The Act made it illegal to wear or falsely claim to have received any military medal or decoration without authorization, including the Medal of Honor. However, the Act was later ruled unconstitutional by the Ninth Circuit Court.

by whatilearned November 23, 2021, 9:27 pm

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TIL of ‘Wildlife Services’, a clandestine government agency that deploys banned chemical weapons on public land, kills housepets and endangered species regularly, and “gives less answers [to Congress] than Homeland Security”

by whatilearned November 23, 2021, 12:14 pm

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I think Unilever should print little government conspiracies on their cotton swabs.

by cringeyjokesman November 15, 2021, 2:18 pm

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TIL of the Moroccan Western Sahara wall. In 1987 the Moroccan government completed a 2700km sand wall to keep out guerilla fighters from the Polisario front, a Western Saharan independence movement. The minebelt that runs along the wall is thought to be the world’s longest continuous minefield.

by whatilearned November 14, 2021, 6:32 pm

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NNN is a government scam

by CopyPastaArchive November 10, 2021, 11:05 am

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