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TIL After WWII Japanese were tried, convicted and hung for war crimes committed against American POWs. Among those charges for which they were convicted was waterboarding.

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Dlnp TIL that the Every Vote Counts Amendment is a proposed Amendment that abolishes the electoral college for presidential elections
dDyJj TIL that in 2011, Dutch TV hosts dine on fried human buttock and belly. Cannibalism is allowed in the Netherlands, as long as you legally obtain human flesh or limbs.
VM6Z4 TIL that about 107 billion people have ever lived
R7Blw TIL In the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) the ship Cotopaxi was discovered in the Gobi desert, presumably left there by Aliens. At that time the ship was believed to have been lost in the Bermuda Triangle in 1925, but was discovered in 1985 in Florida, and not verified until 2020.
PYyxV TIL the last bursts of light in the universe will not be visible from any of the other last remaining stars. The distances will be so large that the photons will decay before crossing them.