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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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Jabj TIL the FBI was right to watch Earnest Hemingway. He was a failed KGB spy.
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b9Na0 TIL that Edvard Munch's famous painting "The Scream" was painted on cardboard
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