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TIL There were Allied POWs in Nagasaki & Hiroshima during the bombings

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4Xpb5 TIL White chocolate is white because it doesnt contain cocoa solids. Instead it is made from cocoa butter (the fatty part). As a result, one can tell that the more yellowy white chocolate is actually better quality than the white chocolate.
WZpL TIL There’s an old vending machine in Seattle that has been spitting out sodas on the corner of John and Broadway for up to 15 years, but no one seems to know who re-stocks, maintains, or collects money from the thing. Some flavors include Mountain Dew White Out and Black Cherry Frescas.
R7ALQ TIL that Abigail Adams Smith, daughter of President John Adams, underwent a mastectomy in a room of the Adams home at age 46. The operation was performed without the benefit of anesthesia.
7BWX TIL that DeForest Kelley disliked repeating Dr. McCoy’s catchphrase “He’s dead, Jim”, which appears 20 times in the original Star Trek series. It became so famous, however, that he joked that the line would appear on his tombstone. It did appear in the first sentence of Kelley’s obituary.
5YnWD TIL Beethoven's 9th Symphony is traditionally performed in Japan at the end of the year, which was introduced in WWI by German prisoners. In December 2009, for example, there were 55 performances of the symphony throughout Japan