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TIL a pack of wiener dogs killed a woman this year.

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QNG8d TIL Iranian general Fathollah Minbashian was fired by Shah Pahlavi for being too resistant to foreign interests. After the Shah was overthrown, he offered to serve the new Islamic Republic, but they refused and ironically demanded that he report for the crime of collaborating with foreign powers.
N75lP TIL that Shiro Ishii, a Japanese general who oversaw Unit 731 and thousands of horrific war crimes during WWII, was given immunity in exchange for human experimentation data. He also may have gone on to do bio-weapons research at Fort Detrick located in Frederick, Maryland.
oRerY TIL: That between the years 1790 and 1800, Philadelphia was in fact the capital of the United States of America. The capital of the United States was moved to Washington D.C. in 1800 upon completion of the White House and U.S. Capitol buildings, where it has remained ever since.
78OAZ TIL that there are physical walls separating Protestant and Catholic neighborhoods in Northern Ireland as a way to minimize violence between them.
D1Mv TIL the dolphin who played Flipper committed suicide and there are other cases of captive dolphins doing the same.