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TIL Croissants are Austrian, not French.

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d8keZ TIL about the Bangladesh genocide of 1971. This was the largest genocide since the Holocaust, with upwards of 3,000,000 people dying.
ne6QY TIL the US government helped to cover up and granted immunity to a Japanese unit which conducted horrifying and lethal human experiments on 200k-500k Chinese civilians during WW2 in exchange for the medical data they had gathered.
7r1vr TIL That Kyrie Eleison means "Lord have mercy" in Greek. It is an expression found several times in the Bible and in is found many Christian hymns including a # 1 hit by Mister, Mister in 1986.
yQBjJ TIL of Bradley Birkenfeld, a whistleblower who revealed the secrets behind Switzerland’s largest bank, was sent to jail, and was later awarded $104 million by the IRS.
R7wVa TIL Huge warthog getting "spa treatment" from mongooses in win-win symbiotic relationship called mutualism. Warthogs living in Uganda have learned to rid themselves of annoying ticks by seeking out the grooming services of some accommodating neighbors: a group of mongooses looking for snacks.