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TIL: Australian and Japanese bus drivers strike against their employers by still driving their routes but refusing to collect passenger fees.

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g6JW TIL that many members of the infamous Japanese research Unit 731, who conducted human experiments on thousands of people in WWII, were granted immunity by the United States and were never convicted once the results of their experiments were handed over.
PY4kZ TIL cockroaches are social and when they are in groups they make decisions collectively.
8DDV TIL that pilots eat different meals to avoid food poisoning
Znvp TIL when congress asked physicist R.R. Wilson to justify the US government spending millions of dollars on a new particle accelerator (Fermilab), Wilson testified that the knowledge gained from it would have “nothing to do directly with defending our country except to help make it worth defending.”
V7lm TIL that during WWI the British built a submarine armed with the gun of a battleship