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TIL The Japanese government pays compensations for Japanese A-bomb survivors but ignores to compensate for Korean slave workers who also survived the bomb

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BgZMk TIL about Dr. Eugene Lazowski, a Polish physician who rescued 8,000 Jewish individuals during World War 2 by ingeniously fabricating a false typhus outbreak in Stalowa Wola, a Polish city under Nazi occupation.
QNR6 TIL The question of why manhole covers are typically round was made famous by Microsoft when they began asking it as a job-interview question.
5wxp TIL A California dentist, Dr. Mark Anderson, was accused in 2007 of fondling the breasts of twenty-seven patients. Although he claimed that these “chest massages” were an effective treatment for TMJ, Anderson was later convicted of eleven counts of felony sexual battery.
xmQg TIL that despite World War I being over 100 years ago, France still recovers 900 tons of un-exploded munitions (mostly from that war) every year.
78ZEO TIL Jack in the Box has had a chicken teriyaki bowl since 1993