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TIL Eminem was so attached to his childhood home that he had a model of it he would take on tours.

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a8egZ TIL that 31 years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the pilot of the former flight, Paul Tibbets, re-enacted the bombing in the original plane at a Texas air show, complete with mock mushroom cloud. Japanese diplomats demanded a formal apology for this.
D8bj TIL that soldiers in the German Army are allowed to disobey any order they think would violate human dignity.