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TIL that the most decorated American unit in WWII was the 442nd, an almost exclusively Japanese-American infantry regiment

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VBbKZ TIL that after the 1984 Bhopal disaster, the worst industrial accident in history, the American CEO of Union Carbide, Warren Anderson, fled India and was declared a fugitive. The US government refused to extradite him, and he died a free man in Florida in 2014.
neb6Y TIL In 1975 Brooke Shields at age 10 was photographed nude for a Playboy shoot that was signed off on by her mother.
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Z86bD TIL The human brain's 86 billion neurons are connected by approximately 850,000 km (530,000 miles) of axons and dendrites. To put things into perspective, the distance between Earth and Moon is only 384,000 km (240,000 miles)