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TIL the leaders of the Japanese Unit 731 were granted full immunity in exchange for disclosure of germ warfare data resulting from their brutal human experimentations.

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m1Wjx TIL the secret codename of India's first successful nuclear weapon test was "Smiling Buddha."
yG1l TIL that in 2012 a South Pacific island, recorded by Google Earth and Australian maps, was discovered to not actually exist
Y7xPB TIL there is a large Dietz & Watson deli meats recall
vVVB TIL Klingons from Star trek are actually based off Japanese people.
Z8M6p TIL that when recording the audio book for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Stephen Fry could not say the phrase "he pocketed it" correctly, and he asked JK Rowling to replace it. She refused, and the phrase appears in each of the following 4 books.