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TIL Godzilla was conceived as a metaphor for the nuclear weapons. To emphasize the monster’s relationship with the atomic bomb, its skin texture was inspired by the keloid scars seen on survivors in Hiroshima.

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JpXv TIL in 1906 the Bronx Zoo exhibited a Congolese pygmy man named Ota Benga in its Monkey House. The New York Times made light of the outrage at the time calling the “imagined humiliation and degradation” of Ota Benga “absurd” because “pygmies are very low in the human scale”
e0VE TIL a US court upheld the argument that rape is an occupational hazard of military service.
VRgm TIL an uncontacted tribe still inhabits an island in the Indian Ocean, living as simple hunter-gatherers. They are vigorously hostile to outsiders, and have not yet developed early technologies such as agriculture or writing.
OA41 TIL ~900 Germans from the town of Demmin committed suicide in panic of the advancing Red Army. Mothers walked into rivers with a rock in a backpack and their babies in their arms. One man shot three young children, then their mothers, then his wife, then himself, but survived as a blind man.
78Vlb TIL/ 24 hours is the limit you can wait after a pregnant woman's water breaks