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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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l8V1 TIL the Nigerian money scams we recieve via email date as far back as the 1830s when they were attempted via post.
4kdmX TIL of Frank Hayes, a trainer and stableman never winning a race before . Riding a horse at 20:1 he is the only known jockey to have died mid race, remaining on the horse and still winning.
p8Lr4 TIL Numbered musical notation is popular in China, making conventions to encode and decode music more accessible than in the West, as more Chinese can sight read it than standard notation. Indexing with numbers makes it possible to search music by melody, but it has never become popular in the West
ALYg TIL the intro to Van Halen’s “Runnin’ With the Devil” is actually car horns. They were taken out of the band’s cars, mounted in a box powered by two car batteries, then slowed down during recording.
Z8Nbv TIL that "Share the Road" signs are being replaced by signs that say "Bicycles May Use Full Lane" because so many people misunderstood the meaning of "Share the Road"