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TIL during WW2 the Japanese killed 200 Allied soldiers after capture by drowning them at seas in 3ft baskets used for swine in what is known as the ‘pig-basket atrocity’

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rYd1 TIL Abraham Lincoln wanted to ship freed black slaves away from the US to British colonies in the Caribbean even in the final months of his life.
Zmba TIL Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top has a 5-octave vocal range (higher than Freddie Mercury’s).
0EgM TIL: Martin Luther King Jr. said, “People who have a stake in their society, protect their society, but when when they don’t have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.”
1aKgP TIL father's get depressed with pregnancy. More of realization... Pregnancy weights heavily on the father. Makes sense and if I am feeling the weight and mood, cannot fathom what she feels.
MaLK TIL that the Oregon legislature ochestrated a bipartisan Rickroll in their statehouse by inserting lyric snippets into their floor speeches and stitching them together, and released the video on YouTube on April Fools Day.