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TIL Japan celebrates Easter, but with no Christian connotations, as a spring family holiday

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kJOQB TIL Prior to the atomic bombings of Japan, the US learned that the Japanese were planning to kill all POWs if a full scale invasion of Japan were to be put into affect. Over 150,000 Americans were still POWs in 1945.
G9E5 TIL that Teddy Roosevelt believed that American currency shouldn’t carry the motto “In God We Trust.”
gv5b TIL slow music playing in a restaurant makes perception of time slow by about 13%, and also makes customers buy up to 40% more drinks than normal
v1gJj TIL of spray paint on sidewalks called “utility graffiti,” which uses colors and symbols to identify pipes and wires underground. Marking the ground wasn’t standard until 1976, when a dig in Los Angeles punctured a gas line and created a “wall of fire” that killed 9 people and destroyed 7 buildings.
awM6N TIL the source code for 13 Atari games, including Ms. Pac-Man and Centipede, were found in a dumpster behind their office building in California