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JZvj TIL that Topcraft, the studio that animated The Hobbit and The Last Unicorn, eventually became Studio Ghibli
enA5 TIL Even the French Government is terrified of the French Foreign Legion and stations the regiment far away from Government HQs.
7rP7P TIL A Japanese man discovered the massive heat - transfer air currents known as the Jet stream in the 1920s. His work went completely unnoticed because he published his findings in Japanese and Esperanto.
kOrkm TIL almost an entire French town in 1951 was poisoned by ergot, the fungus LSD is made from. ”I am dead and my head is made of copper and I have snakes in my stomach and they are burning me,” screamed one man before trying to jump into a river
8a0Yb TIL after WW2, the Japanese researchers who experimented on humans to develop bio- and chemical weapons were given immunity by the US in exchange for their data. Victim accounts were then dismissed as communist propaganda. But, Americans found the data "amateurish" and subsequently returned it.