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TIL POW Jeremiah Denton blinked out in morose code TORTURE confirming for the first time that americans were being tortured in Vietnam

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x6QWw TIL Several countries have started to successfully decommodified housing to varying degrees. With the Vienna model being a highly renowned example with 62% of its residents living in social or subsidized housing.
XQMk TIL in 1941 Harry Truman said “If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia, and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible.”
16eA8 TIL some leather products, especially small items like belts, gloves, purses and shoes, can be from dog or cat skin. Distinguishing dog and cat leather from cow, pig, or sheep is difficult without DNA testing, which makes it easy for manufacturers to pass dog/cat leather off as typical leather.
x6Nj7 TIL that average human height went down from 5'10" (178 cm) for men and 5'6" (168 cm) for women to 5'5" (165 cm) and 5'1" (155 cm) 10,000 years ago and it took until the 20th century for average human height to match pre-Neolithic Revolution levels.
AL7o TIL there are 5 enormous cylindrical shafts underneath of Tokyo, Japan which fill with water in case of a flood so it does not to destroy the city.