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TIL that “corny” jokes were originally used to make corn seed catalogs less boring to read

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8LmV TIL that during the Rape of Nanking, the Japanese took several thousand wounded and sick soldiers, as well as old and feeble refugees whom they had captured, tied them up, and pushed them into a river. They then threw straw doused with kerosene into the river and burned them all to death.
b9ARE TIL Quentin Tarantino played an Elvis impersonator in an episode of The Golden Girls and used his pay (about $3600) to help finance Reservoir Dogs.
YpxOA TIL that Columbia is the name of the female personification of the United States and showed up on WW1 patriotic posters much like Uncle Sam posters
7lAP TIL Billy Joel gives away all of his front row tickets to random people in the cheap seats so that the front row isn’t always just wealthy people.
evOb TIL 30% of all workers in the US with college degrees are employed consistently at jobs where a degree is not needed, even 10 years after graduation