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TIL every time you recall a memory, your brain distorts it a bit.

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5YAOQ TIL that there are still 74 countries where being gay is illegal and 13 countries where homosexuality is punishable by death
xjAB TIL That ants wage war in remarkably similar way to humans.
DRXP TIL that a judge used pictures from a botched execution using the electrical chair to convince the state of Florida to not use that method anymore for executions.
rREm4 TIL there is a 10 ft bronze statue of Robocop in Michigan.
R5pR7 TIL Takashi Yanase (Anpanman creator) was a soldier during the Japanese occupation of China in World War II and lost his brother in the Pacific Theater. After the war, he became a children's book author and anti-war activist with "Chirin no Suzu" being an allegory for WWII.