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TIL Japanese government "believes that it cannot be denied" that some number of noncombatants were killed during the "Nanjing Incident"

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4Xn7R TIL about sickle (or scythe) trees, in which scythes are often found embedded, from when men hung them in trees before going to fight the Civil War
N797P TIL about the tabulating machine, which was invented to help process the 1890 Census and spawned the data processing industry, IBM, and modern computing as a whole
9wlvB TIL whale milk is the consistency of toothpaste and they have inverted nipples inside mammary slits. When the calf nudges the slits, the mother pokes out her nipple and squirts the milk into baby’s mouth.
E1ZYw TIL that 6 people who lived in an apartment over a period of 9 years died from leukemia. An investigation revealed a capsule containing caesium-137 embedded in the wall, believed to have gotten mixed up with construction supplies
17nr TIL that Theodore Roosevelt is the main reason that Americans spell “colour” as “color”.