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TIL about "The Pizza Meter," an unusual indicator of major US military actions

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ZM0B TIL the song “Kung Fu Fighting” was originally mean to be a B side, recorded in 10 minutes then went on to sell 11 million copies worldwide.
epml6 TIL when the US government began to arrange prisoner exchanges with Japan during WWII it found that less than 10% of the people on Japan's list wanted to be repatriated. It then forged an agreement with 15 Latin American countries to ship their ethnic Japanese to the USA to expand its hostage pool
DQ9jJ TIL that lobsters don’t age like most animals, and theoretically, they could live forever if they didn’t die from external causes.
BrL7y TIL of Rimjin-gang, a network of underground journalists operating in North Korea who work to smuggle out news and videos from the country
8rN8 TIL the average recorded age at death for the slaves of the ancient Rome was extraordinarily low: seventeen and a half years (17.2 for males, 17.9 for females)