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TIL Yahoo still exists! Which suprised me.

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aROA TIL German soldiers in American POW camps dramatically burned their German uniforms after being shown films of the atrocities of the Holocaust.
QJ1Gp TIL that despite selling 30 million albums and having 9 top ten hits, Creedence Clearwater Revival were only together for four years.
Z80gY TIL The japanese passport is the strongest passport in the world in terms of travel freedom alongside Singapore and South Korea. Japanese citizens have visa-free or visa on arrival access to 189 countries and territories including the world's four largest economies - China, India, USA and the EU.
1aa6O TIL Admiral Nelson was preserved in a barrel of brandy upon his death. His crew then drank the brandy brandy afterwards (tapping the admiral)
VMvb8 TIL about the Bouba-Kiki effect, which is a universal, inherent and nonarbitrary bias found in most adults to ascribe visual shapes to speech sounds.