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TIL the real mastermind behind the Sook Ching massacre and Bataan Death March got off scot-free

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8aVPa TIL that in Scarface (1983) The prop firearms were equipped with electronic synchronizing devices so that they would only fire when the camera shutter was open. The result was that the guns' muzzle flashes are much more visible and consistent than in most movies
jN1Dv TIL that the microwave oven was invented by accident. In 1945, Percy Spencer, an American self-taught engineer, was working in a lab testing magnetrons, the high-powered vacuum tubes inside radars that produced microwaves, where he noticed a peanut butter candy bar in his pocket had begun to melt
oBZoL TIL that an art collector once kept a statue of Buddha in his home unaware that inside was a 1,000-year-old mummified monk.
OogkL TIL There's roughly 100 firefighter arsonists convicted every year in North America and all of them are serial arsonists, which means three or more fires
W19 TIL in WWII, both Allied and Axis forces, specifically pilots, were known to be methamphetamine users, so much so that it was nicknamed “Pilot’s Salt”.