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

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8eEbG TIL in 1999, the Georgia Institute of Technology created an organic computer out of leech neurons.
rRorx TIL about Taphephobia: the fear of being buried alive as a result of being incorrectly pronounced dead, and that before the era of modern medicine the fear was not entirely irrational and quite common.
N5AJ TIL that Shell abandoned an oil well in Niger in 1977. By 2004, an estimated 20,000 barrels had leaked, polluting groundwater and ruining cropland. Clean up will cost $1bn.
new57 TIL that the Bucket Orchid flower attracts orchid bees with a scent, & traps them in their “bucket”, the only escape is through a space where the flower grips the bee and glues pollen packets to their back to produce more bucket orchids.
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