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TIL the government of Japan has apologized for WWII over 50 times since the end of the war.

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Z8rxv TIL the 1.5-mile-long, 22-foot-high, 4.5-foot-wide granite wall, that currently surrounds the Minnesota State Correctional Facility in St.Cloud, Minnesota, USA is the second largest wall built using inmate labor in the world. The Great Wall of China is the first.
y44l TIL that NASA’s internet speed is 91 Gigabits per second
7Mop TIL a prison inmate, Eugene Debs, received nearly one million votes during the 1920 presidential election. He was serving 10 years for a speech he gave in Ohio.
R7lxj TIL that a chimp, named Ham, originally from Cameroon, was sent into space and recovered alive in a test to ensure that a human being could survive space flight and perform useful functions outside Earth's atmosphere. He died at 25 and is buried at the International Space Hall of Fame in New Mexico.
woGZ8 TIL the US military has a system call Rapid Dragon that allows it to roll off and fire cruise missiles from the back of cargo planes.