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TIL the Singaporean military was established by Israel

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Wk8Mo TIL about Ray Chapman: the only player to die from injury during a MLB game. It was allowed at the time to do anything to the ball from using saliva to dirt, making the ball hard to see. Chapman is believed to not have seen the ball at all which struck him in the head and killed him
XnN8 TIL Shirō Ishii, director of the Japanese WWII Unit 731, was exonerated of all war crimes by the US government in exchange for data collected from human experimentation. US microbiologists called the data “absolutely invaluable” and “obtained fairly cheaply.”
QNdA9 TIL That the U.S. Supreme Court case of Dred Scott v. Sandford played a crucial role in the start of the American Civil War four years later.
E1lBP TIL of the trial and judgement of Nazi camp commandant Josef Oberhauser. Sentenced by West German courts for 450,000 counts of accessory to murder in the Bełżec camp, he was punished with 4,5 years imprisonment, or, a bit more than 5 minutes per victim.
OoKR4 TIL Mew was to be an obtainable pokemon in red and blue but was scratched due the lack of cartridge space, which is one of the many reasons pokemon became so popular.