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TIL Japanese General Hitoshi Imamura was charged with and sentenced to 9 years for failing to control his subordinates as they committed war crimes against Australian troops. He thought that he got off too light so he reconstructed his cell in his yard and lived there for the reminder of his life.

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4XXER TIL "The Cosmic Sequence" is a set of numbers starting with 3 cubed, which pythagoras said "represents the cosmos". It seems he was onto something.
ZplpD TIL that Minecraft was released 15 years ago on May 17th, 2009.
4kpn6 TIL a man suffering from fatal familial insomnia, a condition whereby you become biologically incapable of sleep, attempted vitamin therapy, sensory deprivation, narcoleptics, and anesthesia to sleep, which prolonged his life by 12 months.
p8MX8 TIL of the Navratil twins, whose father had kidnapped them after separating from his wife. He tried to move them to America on the Titanic, but died when the ship sank. The twins were rescued and re-united with their mother after she saw a newspaper picture of them.
RnEQ TIL Thomas Edison did not invent the first electric light bulb, but rather became partners with Joseph Wilson Swan who had already developed & patented a working light bulb and Edison just bought him and his patent out. He was a brilliant business man and also kind of a dick.