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TIL of Unit 731, a covert biological warfare research and development unit of the Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation. A few of the experiments included vivisection without anesthesia and pressure chambers to see how much a human could take before his eyes popped out.

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jNAaQ TIL that Steve Carter, 35, found out he was a missing child. Carter, who was adopted at 4, found an age-progression image through missing children. He discovered he'd been kidnapped by his birth mother and placed in an orphanage. His biological father reported him missing over three decades earlier.
l7807 TIL that the Sega Saturn was Sega's best-selling console in Japan and even outsold the Nintendo 64 in that region
woVxM TIL After the release of the 1965 Czechoslovak film 'Loves of a Blonde' hundreds of boys travelled to the town it was set in, because the film falsely depicted women outnumbering men there 16-1.
8kvK TIL Sleeping Beauty (in 1634) gets a sliver, falls apparently dead, is hidden by her father, found unconscious and raped by a king out hunting, gives birth to two children who wake her up, so the king burns his wife alive to be with her (after the wife tried to kill and eat the babies)
NXQ41 TIL that former French general and president Charles de Gaulle’s eldest son, Phillippe de Gaulle, who served in the French Navy during WW2 and eventually rose to the rank of admiral, passad away yesterday at the age of 102.