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TIL Logitech is called Logicool in Japan.

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rLvd TIL of Unit 731, a covert Japanese research group that carried out human experimentation during WWII to study chemical and biological warfare. The are considered to be responsible for some of the worst war crimes in history for the tens of thousand who died during the experiments.
ZpGbv TIL that Jerry Springer died over a year ago! .... Seriously. Wtf?!
LQp60 TIL my wheelie bin has a noise limit stamped on it
woL8Y TIL that turtles, like humans, can get decompression sickness (the bends).
9YEy7 TIL about Japan's Fu-Go bomb project, in which they launched balloon-borne bombs from Japan during WWII, hoping they would explode in the US and cause confusion and terror. It was a total failure except one case where some kids found one and died.