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TIL Emperor Hirohito apologised for Japan's warcrimes in WW2, which Douglas MacArthur allegedly rejected by refusing to acknowledge Hirohito's presence. Patrick Lennox Tierney, the source for the story, would call it "the rudest, crudest, most uncalled for thing I have ever witnessed in my life"

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VMGrG TIL that the Micronesian island of Yap is known for its stone money, known as Rai. They use large doughnut-shaped, carved disks of calcite, some as large as 13 ft in diameter. The Rai is still used today for social transactions, including marrage, political deals, etc.
P14Ge TIL the largest Colombian "narco sub" to be decommissioned since records began in 1993 was seized in the Pacific Ocean in 2023 (3 tons of cocaine were on board). The vessel was about 100 ft long & 10 ft wide. Up to that point, the Colombian navy had seized a total of 228 drug-laden semi-submersibles
JEK1 TIL the famous windows XP desktop background “bliss” was only possible due to an infestation that killed all of the grapes that would have been in that field
4kaGR TIL about the London Beer Flood of 1814. One of the Horse Shoe Brewery's fermentation tank supporting bands snapped and set loose 320,000 gallons of beer on the neighborhood of St. Giles. Ultimately, the beer flood resulted in eight deaths.
ZXGD TIL the US gives Israel $3.1 Billion per year, or $8.5 million per day, in military aid even though their arms industry is one of the strongest in the world