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TIL that General LeMay, responsible for the firebombing of 63 Japanese cities during WW2, said “Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.”

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d88aQ TIL MDMA or ecstasy, has been around for a very long time. It's been discovered as early as 1914, and done so by a pharmaceutical company from Germany called Merck. It was patented, but between its discovery and 1960’s when it was rediscovered, there is little mention of the drug
16lPO TIL: In 2015, an Italian Supreme Court enshrined workers’ right to watch porn on the job
9YW1r TIL actress Glynis Johns originally thought she was being offered the role of Mary Poppins. To soften the blow of telling her she was being cast as Mrs. Banks, Walt Disney announced she'd get her own song, then quickly called the film's songwriters, who adapted a deleted song into Sister Suffragette
KONy6 TIL Stone-stacking is popular amongst Instagrammers, but can seriously harm wildlife including oystercatcher birds.
J1vP4 TIL Kendrick Lamar is the only musician outside of the classical and jazz genres to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music