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TIL Hitler considered the Japanese “Honorary Aryans” because of their “racial integrity.”

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BrwDk TIL that legendary video game composer Nobuo Uematsu is completely self-taught, and thought making video game music would be a fun side job.
x4Dg TIL that 5.5 million people died in a famine under British rule in India. Around the same time, Lord Lytton, the Vice Roy of India was engaged in a fabulous celebration with over 60 000 guests to be wined and fed for the coronation of Queen Victoria as the Empress of India.
aB0N TIL There are claims of a tiny subspecies of elephant living in the mountains of southern India that only grows to a height of 5 feet. The Kallana.
b97r7 TIL the only band to turn down touring with David Bowie was the one and only Kraftwerk in 1976.
wLk5o TIL that the software to create the black hole in the movie 'Interstellar' is a full implementation of Einstein's equations in 40,000 lines of C++, and rendered thousands of 23-megapixel IMAX frames on a 32,000-core render farm at about 20 core-hours per frame