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TIL that multiple Japanese Prime Ministers, Foreign Ministers, and Emperors have apologized for the country’s action during WWII

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KOdY9 TIL Abraham Lincoln, prior to becoming President, was an avid boater and traveled on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers where his boat often got stuck on sandbars. In 1849 Lincoln invented a method for Buoying Vessels Over Shoals, making him the first and only U.S. President to receive a patent.
5J0p TIL António Moniz, the surgeon who developed the frontal lobotomy procedure to make people calm and docile, was shot by one of his lobotomized patients.
d8WmK TIL That a soccer/football game in the UK was canceled shortly after it began due to heavy fog, everyone left except goalkeeper Sam Bartram who didn't hear the referee and guarded his goal in silence for 15 minutes before a policeman came and told him of the cancellation.
9V77 TIL The “Soapmaker of Correggio” made soap out of her human victims by boiling them in caustic soda. 1938-41
kJB81 TIL We Perceive People that Annoy Us as Moving Slower than They Are