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TIL: 75 Years Later, Purple Hearts Made for an Invasion of Japan are Still Being Awarded

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P1VAV TIL that the earliest version of the Pied Piper story makes no mention of rats - only that, on 26 June 1284, a piper led 130 children out of Hamelin, never to return. Music and dancing remain banned on Bungelosenstrasse, the “street without drums” where they were last seen.
j6omv TIL that "Zoozve", an asteroid and quasi-moon of Venus, is named for a typo on a children's poster when the artist misread the object's provisional designation "2002VE" as "ZOOZVE". A podcast host noticed it on his son's poster, asked the discoverer to submit the name to the IAU, which accepted it.
rDlx TIL that when the Champawat Tigress, a Bengal tiger responsible for the deaths of over 436 people was killed, it was discovered that it’s canine teeth were broken. This had prevented it from hunting it’s natural prey.
xwPk TIL that Ming the Clam, the world’s oldest animal at 507, was killed by researchers trying to tell how old it was
yVY6w TIL about Anton Syndrome, in which some blind people insist they can see, even making up things they see though they are obviously blind