› added 4 months ago

15

TIL that long after World War II ended, Teruo Nakamura of the Japanese imperial army was one of the last soldiers to finally surrender after holding out until 1974. 30 years after the war ended.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

kOOG1 TIL: A human head transplant is planned to happen in China in the next few months. The main method is freezing the head before re-attaching it to an entirely new body.
4kgWg TIL about Shi Pei Pu, a Chinese spy who masqueraded as a woman during sexual intercourse by tucking his testicles into his body cavity and tucking his penis back.
4k9yN TIL the term “third world” was originally a label worn as a sense of pride for countries that didn't fall into either the pro-capitalism or pro-communism camp.
loPW7 TIL that the lead singer of Toto was the singing voice for adult Simba in The Lion King
LZyv TIL that “frequency illusion,” somewhat better known as the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, is what you call the syndrome in which a concept or thing you just found out about suddenly seems to appear everywhere.