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TIL during the international Tokyo Trial of the Japanese Leadership during WWII, Justice Pal from India was the sole dissenter who found that the defendants were all innocent as he argued that the crimes they were accused of were not illegal when they were committed.

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8PYL TIL Hershey’s Kisses got its name from the machine that makes them, which makes kissing sounds and appears to “kiss” the conveyor belt onto which the chocolate is dispensed.
Ejdw TIL the Rolling Stones were criticized for high ticket prices on their 1969 US tour so they decided to hold a free concert. The festival was organized by the Grateful Dead and took place at the Altamont Speedway in 1969. It was a disaster, and signalled the end of the hippie movement.
jQnX TIL that China’s “SkyCity”, planned in 2013 to be the tallest building in the world and also to be built within record time of 90 days, is now a massive fish pond.
O0ma TIL That One Million Dollars of Monopoly money has been transported by private plane and armored car
nd8b TIL there are 12,000 properties designated “severe repetitive loss” properties for which “the flood insurance program has paid the owners for four significant flood claims, two within one decade”, helping to contribute to “about $24 billion in debt and taxpayers are left to pay the claims”