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TIL that LIFE Magazine once printed a guide on "how to tell Japs from the Chinese"

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pbLp TIL There is a Statue Outside the Japanese Embassy in Seoul Dedicated to the Victims of the Japanese Sex Slave Trade During WWII
mxBQM TIL a computer virus discovered in 1991 was named the Michelangelo virus by researchers due to its time bomb feature activating the virus on March 6 of any year, a date that happened to coincide with the birth of Renaissance artist Michelangelo.
WRdX TIL that the Viking 1 lander explored Mars for six years until human error during a software update caused its antenna to go down, terminating communication.
Z879R TIL the Soviet Union and the United States were originally in talks to go to the moon together during the Cold War. Nikita Khrushchev was poised to accept the plan but then President Kennedy was assassinated. The Soviets did not trust Vice President Johnson, so Khrushchev rejected the plan.
XpZr TIL That Dexter Holland (Lead singer for the Offspring) is a candidate for a PhD in microbiology