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TIL Western Medicine was Introduced in Japan by a botanist

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b6Lb9 TIL Boeing's 737 MAX software was outsourced to $9-an-hour Indian engineers
R7bmQ TIL in the original British 'House of Cards' tv series, there is a character who comes out as gay and resigns immediately after being spotted in a bar with an underage boy
j6BWj TIL when the emperor of Japan announced the surrender at the end of WW2 he did it in extremely formal and archaic words, the equivalent of an English speaker using Shakespearean language
g49A TIL that serial killer Javed Iqbal was sentenced to death by being strangled in front of his victims family’s, dismembered and then burned in a vat of acid, in the same way he killed over 100 16 year old boys. He was found dead in his cell before the execution could be carried out.
rdRx TIL there is a “Fruit Salad Tree” which can grow up to 6 different types of fruit.