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TIL The USA planned on using up to 12 nukes if Japan didn't surrender during WW2

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KOWyG TIL Quigley Down Under and Lightning Jack are directed by the same person, one an American Cowboy in Australia, the other an Australian Cowboy in America.
jNDbX TIL there is only one mammal species that uses stridulation as a means of communication with other members of its group. The lowland streaked tenrec, native to Madagascar, uses its spines to create high-pitched sounds by rubbing them against each other just as crickets use their scrapers to chirp.
neeRP TIL that conductors of Stanford prison experiment and Milgram experiment knew each other personally. Philip Zimbardo and Stanley Milgram were classmates in their senior year at James Monroe High School.
ADpNd TIL that an Austrian Diplomat writing an antisemitic book about the evilness of Jews came to a different conclusion before it was published, declaring that "antisemitism amounted to nothing more credible than fanatical religious hatred"
W7OQ8 TIL The Replacement movie was based on the 1987 Washington Redskins replacement/scab players. They played for 3 games and won all 3. The Redskins won the Superbowl that year but the replacement players never received the rings till 30 years later.