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TIL Between 1921 and 1932 three Japanese Prime Ministers were assassinated by Rightwing members of Japanese society

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jNvWj TIL a study by researchers at a London university found that Botswana has the most unique folk and traditional music among the 137 countries investigated, followed by Ivory Coast, Chad, and Benin. China's music differs the most from its neighbors.
ZpGNY TIL a number is US cities are named after the Miami Native American nation of the Great Lakes but Miami Florida is not one of them. Miami Florida is named after the Miami River which is fed from Lake Mayaimi, now Lake Okeechobee.
AD1Pa TIL A cockroach will fart about every 15 minutes.
E1PL7 TIL in 1977 David Begelman, then head of Columbia Pictures, was caught embezzling $75,000 from the studio. To avoid a scandal he was quietly fired, and three years later became CEO of MGM. The actor who discovered his embezzlement was Blacklisted by the studio for reporting it to the police.
kNNW TIL that Marcionites, an early Christian sect, believed that the god of the Old Testament was a separate entity from the god of the NT, and that the physical world was his evil creation.