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TIL of Eric Lomax, a British ex-POW who was captured in 1942 by Japanese forces. Many years after the war, he tracked down the Japanese man who had tortured him, and forgave him.

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BrZaD Today I Learned that due to the popularity of the song “Hey Ya” by OutKast, specifically the line “shake it like a Polaroid picture,” the Polaroid company had to issue a statement informing consumers that shaking the Polaroid picture will not assist in developing the photo and can actually ruin it.
1GmV TIL there is a worsening and unexplained epidemic in China involving violent, random individuals walking into elementary schools and mutilating or killing children.
V8DG TIL Researchers at MIT studied phantom traffic jams (jams that arise in the absence of any obstacles) and found they are inevitable at a certain vehicle density threshold. The waves of traffic are named Jamitons, and are similar to the equations that describe detonation waves produced by explosions.
JO94 TIL there is a condition called Situs Inversus in which all of your organs are exactly mirrored from a normal person’s.
D11Mr Even small amounts of vigorous exercise could significantly lower a person’s risk of dying prematurely, according to a large-scale new study of exercise and mortality.