26Civil Liberties Act
In 1988, President Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act, which gave $20,000 reparations to every Japanese-American (and their descendants) who got sent to internment camps in World War 2.
27. Every evening at 10 p.m. students in the town of Uppsala, Sweden, let out a collective scream as a response to the stress of university life. They call it the ‘Flogsta Scream’.
28. The Great Sioux Nation, consisting of nine tribes, lost the Black Hills in South Dakota when the USA violated a treaty. In 1980, the Supreme Court agreed and set $105 million in funds aside as compensation. The Sioux did not accept it, preferring the land instead. There is now ~$2 billion in that fund as of 2019.
29. The final words of Venezuelan President Antonio José de Sucre were: “F*ck, a bullet wound!” He’d been shot while riding in a jungle in Colombia. He was said to have been an educated gentleman who had never cursed until that day.
30. A Japanese doctor named Tetsu Nakamura has devoted his life by revitalizing deserts in Afghanistan, making forests and wheat farmland and contributing to peace. Nakamura was decorated with the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun and Afghan National Medal. His Afghan community nicknamed him “Uncle Nakamura.”
