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TIL that in WWI trench guns were given to US soldiers skilled in trap shooting so they could shoot incoming grenades out of the air

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mB5M TIL of Iwao Hakamada Japanese Boxer who was interrogated for 20 days straight with no lawyer present and spent 46 Years On A Death Row for a crime he did not commit.
goRL TIL It costs $44,563 to incarcerate a prisoner for a year in California—nearly the same price as a year at Harvard University with room and board
waY1 TIL that Spaghetti is a plural for Spaghetto.
OQO4 TIL In ancient India, Diabetes was called “madhumeha” or “honey urine” as the urine would attract ants. Indian physicians Sushruta and Charaka identified Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes as separate conditions for the first time in 400-500 CE.[xpost from /r/india]
PwvJ TIL Moti Shniberg, business man, tried to trademark the term “September 11, 2001."on that very day, as the Twin Towers and Pentagon were still smoldering.