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TIL that Japanese bus drivers held a 'strike' while carrying on with their jobs

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kBrE TIL the Army secretly dumped 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard agents into the ocean, along with 400,000 chemical-filled bombs, land mines and rockets
RENa TIL on Christmas Day in 1900 the first international phone call was made. John W. Atkins called to Cuba testing to see if it would be possible for voice to be heard through the telegraph lines. After a long silence, Cuba answered with a simple “I don’t understand you.”
bnV4 TIL In Denmark it is considered in very bad taste and down right rude to boast about, or do anything that draws attention to yourself.
vaV7 TIL The North Face clothing company sued a clothing company called The South Butt
D1mQD TIL flypaper used to be made with metallic arsenic, which some people would soak in water to extract the poison. Fly paper had been used in several murder cases.