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TIL 72% of Japanese people view Russia unfavorably, making Japan the most anti-Russian nation in the world.

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Or1 TIL that the more than 100,000 people working on the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge Tennessee in the 1940s had no idea what they were working on. It wasn’t until the local newspaper printed the bombing of Hiroshima were the workers told what they had been working on for the last several years.
l7BLA TIL Elizabeth Holmes' father was a VP at Enron
5mvr TIL the entirety of Ulysses S. Grant’s much-given “perfect speech” was: “I rise only to say that I do not intend to say anything. I thank you for your hearty welcomes and good cheers.”
oBvWL TIL Roman Senator Cato the Elder would end every one of his speeches with "Carthago delenda est" which translates to, "Furthermore, I consider that Carthage must be destroyed"
BkwD TIL that in 1968, the first instance on US television of physical contact between a black man (Harry Bellafonte) and a white woman (Petula Clark, who took hold of his arm when signing) made it to the screen only because Clark and her husband, destroyed all the takes where the contact did not occur.