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TIL that US soldiers in WWII were promised a quart of icecream if they refrained from killing Japanese POWs.

TIL in 1910, Norman Angell (a future Nobel Price Peace Winner) published a book that propagated the view that Europe had become so economically interlaced that future war was impossible.

TIL that, whilst fighting in the Spanish Civil War, George Orwell was shot through the neck. The bullet missed his main artery by a fraction, but he fully recovered - going on to write Animal Farm and 1984, amongst others.

TIL That Bing Crosby “loved marijuana” and suggested to his son that he smoke instead of drink

TIL False Memory Syndrome is believed to have been abused by multiple therapists in order to convince patients that they have been raped, abused, or were once involved in satanic cults.

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