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TIL of Japan’s Unit 731, which committed some of the most terrible war crimes in World War II, including human vivisections, innoculation of diseases, and exposure to radiation and poison gas to thousands of innocent Chinese and Russians. These crimes are still denied by the Japanese people today.

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J1Xvv TIL that the idea that caffeine makes you dehydrated is largely a myth
nekeP TIL that in the 85 years since Pluto’s discovery, it has yet to complete a single orbit of the Sun. A single Plutonian year is 247.68 Earth years.
KeMa TIL that France is divided into holiday zones. Each zone’s schools have vacations at the same time, to prevent the overcrowding that would occur at resorts if every school in the country were to close at once.