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TIL The last surviving member of the crew that bombed Hiroshima hosted Japanese students at his home and commented “The Japanese you know today are not the Japanese we fought during WW2. The Japanese today are nice people.”

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OoM6g TIL that in 1962 a pair of con artists tried to convince a Mexican village they were Incan gods. They hired a prostitute to impersonate an Incan goddess as part of the scam. The prostitute took over the now-growing cult, and intiated a series of grisly murders and human sacrifices
8J74 TIL Researchers have identified a naturally occurring bacteria in the human gut that keeps people from developing food allergies. This beneficial gut bacteria diminished with frequent antibiotic use at a young age — making children more susceptible to food allergies later in life.
wLggY TIL Elephants are among the very few land mammals apart from humans to mourn the dead among them and visit their graves.
YgNZ TIL that the LDS church still officially teaches against interracial marriage, generally.
N7Wjb TIL the important jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman's first saxophone was made of plastic. He bought it because he couldn't afford one made from metal. At first he didn't like the sound, though he continued to play it for years after he likely could have afforded a metal one