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TIL Japan used a biological attack during WW2 which was largely covered up after the war.

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e0y75 TIL actor Robert Pattinson dealt with an obsessed fan who had been camping outside his apartment by taking her out on a dinner date. "I just complained about everything in my life and she never came back."
x6vZ7 TIL in Eastern Canada 1923 is known as “The year of free beef”. When the Maritimes changed from driving on the left to the right hand side of the road, oxen could not be retrained to walk on the right side and so were sent to slaughter causing a precipitous decline in beef price.
9547 TIL the Prime Minister of New Zealand went to see a doctor and a vet to confirm that he is a regular human being and not a shape shifting lizard from space
ZpjQQ TIL test screenings for “Edward Scissorhands” were so encouraging, the President of 20th Century Fox considered marketing the film on the scale of "an E.T.-sized blockbuster," but conceded, “We have to let it find its place. We want to be careful not to hype the movie out of the universe.”
07r5 TIL the US Navy has 2 humanitarian ships that are effectively mobile hospitals that has room for 1000 beds each.