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TIL 60% of apps in the Apple App Store have never ever been downloaded

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r6O1 TIL that during WWII ‘Trophy Taking’ of Japanese skulls & other body parts by US soldiers was so prevalent that when Japanese soldiers’ remains were repatriated from the Mariana Islands 60% were missing their skulls. FDR was even given a letter-opener made from a Japanese soldier’s arm.
QJRNk TIL about the Chinese poem "Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den," or "Shī shì shí shī shǐ." The poem is solely composed of "shi" 92 times, but pronounced with different tones.
awnPM TIL of the Mace Kingsley Ranch, a Scientology Private School where students were forced to do hard labor and the director, Wally Hanks, would punish the students with beatings (he was caught on audio tape). The school shut down in 2002.
Q5ME TIL that the theft of a Runescape amulet resulted in the conviction of the thieves in the Netherlands.
LkbWm TIL Surgeons had to remove 78 forks & spoons from a women's stomach, who had been complaining about stomach pains