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TIL Mexico is officially called the United Mexican States.

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9wbbM TIL that Mussolini used castor oil to humiliate and torture political enemies. Victims had their mouths forced open, and a bottle of castor oil was poured down their throats, causing severe diarrhea, dehydration, and public humiliation. This was a common method to punish opponents of Fascism.
P1Z7J TIL that Osamu Tezuka was invited to work on 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick, a fan of Astro Boy. Tezuka, despite his interest, had to say no, because he could not afford to move to England for a year.
9ww8B TIL about kleptoparasitism, an opportunistic feeding strategy where one animal deliberately steals food from another.
Bgx8e TIL about Saint Mary MacKillop, an Australian nun who in 1871 was excommunicated from the Catholic Church in retaliation for exposing child abuse by a priest.
Z8lPp TIL: When Hideki Tojo was imprisoned at Sugamo Prison after WWII a dentist named Jack Mallory was tasked with puttinh in new dentures for him, shortly before his execution. Jack Mallory then drilled 'Remember Pearl Harbor' in Morse Code onto his dentures.