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TIL Unit 731's director was granted immunity from war crimes prosecution and hired by the US to aid its biological warfare program in Korea

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BgEbD TIL how one Japanese artist spent six months trekking 3000 miles through Japan with a GPS tracker to spell out ‘Marry Me’ across islands
v16QB TIL that European beavers are faithful to one another but American beavers regularly cheat on each other
pAob TIL: The word algorithm comes from the Latinized translation of the name of a persian mathematician Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī, who presented the first systematic solution of linear and quadratic equations.
BgZ0x TIL the Ancient Olympics were held at least 293 times (1,169 years) consecutively — from 776 BC to 393 AD — nearly 10 times longer than the Modern Olympics have been running (since 1896).
YpX1d TIL that Germany has the most diverse selection and production of bread in the world with 200 types of bread.