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TIL If all your siblings have been killed in the military, according to the Sole Survivor Policy, you will not be accepted into the military, or if already serving, you will be immediately discharged.

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4ENJ TIL North Korean tunnels exist under the DMZ, apparently designed for a surprise attack on Seoul. 4 have been discovered since the 1970s, but there are suspected to be up to 20 more.
699xJ TIL Emperor Hirohito apologised for Japan's warcrimes in WW2, which Douglas MacArthur allegedly rejected by refusing to acknowledge Hirohito's presence. Patrick Lennox Tierney, the source for the story, would call it "the rudest, crudest, most uncalled for thing I have ever witnessed in my life"
8eRMZ TIL about the Atomic Energy Lab. A toy lab set created in 1950 so that kids could create and watch nuclear and chemical reactions. However, merely a year later, it was pulled from shelves as it contained real samples of the radioactive element Uranium in it.
GYAbQ TIL Nuclear Semiotics investigates methods to inform earthlings of the far future to avoid nuclear waste sites; ideas include color-changing cats, an atomic priesthood, and a Rosetta Stone-type message