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TIL the most decorated infantry unit in US history was made up of Japanese-Americans during WWII despite being untrusted and their communities forced into camps.

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aylb TIL The prototype of the chainsaw we are familiar with today in the timber industry was pioneered in the late 18th century by two Scottish doctors as a surgical tool to aid in the process of diffucult childbirth
QJj9a TIL Priyanka Chopra has a world record for most different characterss played by an actress in a single movie, with 12
nWaab TIL that the Titanic was the place of discovery for tiny iron eating microbes. These microbes form icicle-shaped “rusticles.” Which consists of 35% iron compounds and a community of symbiontic microbes and fungi. “Halomonas titanicae” is expected to dissolve the Titanic by 2045.
QJNMM TIL that 6 of the 7 highest opening weekends of all time belong to Disney movies
yQ0O8 TIL when Ranjit Singh, Maharaja of the Sikh Empire, died, four of his Hindu wives and seven of his Hindu concubines burned themselves alive on his funeral pyre.