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TIL about Mimizuka, a monument in Kyoto dedicated to the sliced off noses of killed Korean soldiers and civilians taken as war trophies.

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Z8pB4 TIL all the 360 kilogrammes of lunar soil samples brought back from the Apollo missions have now rusted after corroding their vacuum bottle seals and being exposed to water and oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere.
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