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TIL: Japanese war criminal, Tojo Hideki, attempted suicide after the surrender. He was saved and resuscitated by Allied forces, who then hanged him.

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xVrrw TIL about the Opabinia, one of the strangest fossils ever discovered. It had five eyes on a flat, shrimp-like body without legs, was covered in chitinous scales and had a long, extensible mouhtpiece, like the one found in common houseflies, but much longer.
Z8ZwR TIL Mummies are sometimes used in medicine to calibrate CAT scan machines
BrKWd TIL Manuel Noriega, former Panamanian leader, may have been the first person ever to get Rick Rolled, when the US govt blasted music at him during his removal from power in 1989. He had holed up in a foreign embassy in Panama.
vEV7 TIL The alternative names for our planet Earth, besides Gaia, are also Tellus and Telluris
BMxe TIL that during the German occupation of Luxembourg, some Luxembourgish refused to give the Nazi salute. Instead of raising one’s arm while shouting “Heil Hitler” they shouted in a strong Luxembourgish accent “Drei Liter” which is German for “Three liters”