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TIL Nasa photographed a naturally occurring rectangular iceberg a mile long. They suspect it had recently broken off from an ice shelf. These objects are not unknown. They are known as 'tabular icebergs.'

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K5lB TIL of the Laha Massacre where Japanese forces picked 300 Australian and Dutch POWs at random in February 1942 and executed them in revenge for the sinking of a Japanese ship. Surviving crew members of the sunken ship took part in the killings.
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