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TIL that Japan's Air Force dropped massive amounts of ceramic bombs filled with bubonic plague-infested fleas in Ningbo, China during WW2

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5VMyB TIL North American arts and crafts store Michaels has seen a 300 per cent sales boost in its beads and jewelry categories to make Friendship bracelets in the days leading up to Taylor Swift concerts. Globally, only 9% of plastic waste is recycled, 50% ends up in landfills
Xxb6 TIL the Pony Express only lasted from April 3, 1860 to October 1861, before the telegraph made it obsolete.
wPW8 TIL after the 9/11 attacks, Clear Channel released a list of ‘questionable’ songs that it recommended that its subsidiaries 'might not want to play’. The list included all recorded songs by Rage Against the Machine
K9aE TIL in 1943 the Nazis made a propoganda film about the Titanic showing the British as cowards and the Germans as brave. The hero is a German officer who saves third-class passengers and the villan is a British owner of the ship who recklessly crashes the boat while trying to break a speed record.
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