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TIL 750 American citizens serve in the Israeli Defense Force

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rxkx TIL that hours after Nintendo announced the death of their CEO, Satoru Iwata, a rainbow appeared over their headquarters in Kyoto, Japan. It was dubbed “The Rainbow Road to Heaven”
ZZ6Y TIL The sum of odd numbers starting at 1 is always a square number.
69KQQ TIL That one of the first solar-powered houses was built in 1948.
GAmJJ TIL that a rollover error in a radiotherapy machine’s computer system meant the sufficient checks were not ran before the machine delivered the dosage. Several people were delivered upwards of 80,000 rads and subsequently died from the overdose.
9YQN6 TIL of Eric Lomax, a British ex-POW who was captured in 1942 by Japanese forces. Many years after the war, he tracked down the Japanese man who had tortured him, and forgave him.