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TIL that Qantas transported a jet engine on a 747

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16k1W TIL that Kuboyama Aikichi, a Japanese fisherman, was the first known victim of hydrogen bomb radiation exposure. He was aboard the "Lucky Dragon No. 5" (Daigo Fukuryu Maru), a fishing boat caught in radioactive fallout from the 1954 U.S. Castle Bravo hydrogen bomb test near Bikini Atoll.
y6y8 TIL Dave Foley can’t return to Canada without facing imprisonment due to unpaid child support.
gMv7A TIL that the Japanese used houseflies coated in a bacterial slurry to spread cholera in China and kill an estimated 410,000 people during WWII.
7nYO TIL that China banned the video game Football Manager because it treated Taiwan and Tibet as separate countries and was deemed “harmful to China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
EV0p TIL Genghis Khan exempted the poor and clergy from taxes, encouraged literacy, and established free religion, leading many peoples to join his empire before they were even conquered.