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TIL: In 1895, Empress Myeongseong of Korea was murdered and had her corpse burned by 20 Japanese agents. A Russian architect made an eyewitness account.

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69RXX TIL in the 1982 film Halloween III: Season of the Witch, the song “London Bridges” was chosen as the melody for the Silver Shamrock jingle simply because it was available in the public domain, and therefore saving the filmmaker’s the cost of licensing a song or hiring someone to write a jingle.
VBOx4 TIL Coca Cola released a German advert celebrating the 75th anniversary of Fanta’s 1940 founding in Nazi Germany. Before it got pulled, it stated it wanted to “bring the feeling of the good old times back.”
4XWgb TIL that in 2017 it was revealed that UN peacekeepers operated a child sex ring in Haiti for over 10 years and no one went to jail
WkLg4 TIL of an Idahoan student who made a science project about the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide (water). The project was so convincing it caused his fellow students to call for it to be banned. This was used as an argument against leading the public to false conclusions with the manipulation of facts.
bGmE TIL that the origin of the Honeycrisp Apple is a 50+ year secret, known only to the creators, researchers at the University of Minnesota