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TIL that MTV’s “Jersey Shore” is called “Macaroni Rascals” in Japan.

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QJNZL TIL that cheating and cheats' making is illegal in South Korea.
x91o TIL in WWII the Russians trained dogs to run under German tanks with bombs on their backs. However, the tanks the dogs were trained to run under were Russian so they ended up running under the Russian tanks and blowing them up instead.
ep7vJ TIL in 1983 Apple released the first commercial computer with a mouse and graphical user interface, ideas based largely or solely on technologies from Xerox in exchange for the chance for Xerox to buy 10,000 shares of Apple at $10 apiece.
Kvo4 TIL Law professor Roger Fisher suggested that nuclear launch codes be implanted in a volunteer’s heart. The president would be required to personally take the life of an innocent person before taking the lives of hundreds of millions.
X0XM8 TIL about the Three Alls Policy, a campaign that killed 2.7 million people during ww2