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TIL that close to 50 million people died at the hands of Japanese aggression between 1931 and 1945 in the Asian Holocaust during the Asia Pacific War

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AMAx TIL In the United States Brazil nuts were, until the 1960s, known by the epithet “nigger toes,”.
4XxyJ TIL: among the feral animals in the Australian Outback are Peacocks. Feral Peafowl prey on snakes but are preyed upon by Dingo
loG8B TIL that CT body scans expose the patient to the same amount of radiation as that experienced within a mile and a half of the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
6NvW TIL that in Japan when a death order has been issued, the condemned prisoner is informed in the morning of his/her execution.
b9b4p TIL that Cayman Island is just 260 Sq. Km (approx 16 km*16 km) with a population of nearly 65,000 has nearly 100,000 registered companies with a ratio of 1.5 companies per person. Caymanians have the highest standard of living in the Caribbean. Their currency = 1.2 US $.