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TIL two Imperial Japanese soldiers competed to see who would be the first to decapitate 100 surrendered Chinese soldiers with a sword. (they were later executed for war crimes, having killed 106 and 105, respectively)

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e0WQD TIL Julius Caesar was not born from a Caesarian Section. The term Caesarians are not named after Caesar but instead Caesar was named after Caesarians. In Latin caesus is the past participle of caedere meaning “to cut”.
QJVp TIL in the United Kingdom, if an election has resulted in a tie in which candidates receive exactly the same number of votes after three recounts, the winner can be decided either by drawing straws/lots, coin flipping, or drawing the high card in a pack of cards.
JYvwv TIL Clinically, what is often seen as "relaxation" in a scruffed [grabbing the animal by the loose skin at the back of the neck] adult cat is actually behavioral shutdown, or learned helplessness that occurs when an animal experiences a very high level of fear and stress.
ANGrw TIL the night before he drove in the Italian Grand Prix of 1961, Wolfgang von Trips, speaking about mortality, told a journalist “It could happen tomorrow. That’s the thing about this business, you never know.” In the race the next day, he died in an accident that also killed 15 spectators.
Dbpr TIL that McDonald’s was suppose to revamp the Golden Arches in 1960 but a psychologist argued to keep it because it resembled breasts, giving Freudian applications to the subconscious mind of the consumer.