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TIL that Japan's rapid industrialization was driven by massive family-owned conglomerates called "zaibatsu," which were so powerful they were essentially dismantled by the Allies after WWII to democratize the nation.

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gW8 TIL That Americans Are As Likely to Be Killed by Their Own Furniture As by Terrorism
QkA9 TIL that when a cat died in Ancient Egypt, their human family would go into a deep mourning and shave their eyebrows.
woVM8 TIL Most of the iodine in dairy comes from iodine-based sanitizers used to clean the cow teats between milking. This residual iodine then seeps into the milk.
E1VN7 TIL the physicist Arthur Holly Compton, whose "scattering" experiment showed that photons have momentum, invented the "speed hump" on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis
WJbd TIL 25% of Russian men die before reaching 55, compared with 7% in the UK and less than 1% in the US. Vodka is cited as the cause for low life expectancy.