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TIL the name of the TIME magazine stands for “The International Magazine of Events”

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nWB5d TIL 25000 disabled people were sterilized in Japan between the 1950s and 1990s, at least 16,500 forcibly
nVkG TIL Christopher Lee, when acting the scene in which Saruman is stabbed from behind in The Return of the King, informed Peter Jackson that because he would be stabbed in the lungs, he would not be able to scream. He knew this from his time in the SAS during WWII
worZE TIL During sleep, brain waves help flush waste out of the brain. Individual nerve cells coordinate to produce rhythmic waves that propel fluid through dense brain tissue, washing the tissue in the process
bG5E TIL a Harvard student lost his internship at Facebook after pointing out a privacy vulnerability which he found on their servers. Ironically, Mark Zuckerberg defended himself when he did the same with Harvard’s servers while studying there.
7rwGp TIL King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand around 1960. An accidental monarch who was not born in the direct line of succession, he took the throne in 1946 at the age of 18 and became the personification of Thai nationhood. He would become known as the peoples king.