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TIL: When Hideki Tojo was imprisoned at Sugamo Prison after WWII a dentist named Jack Mallory was tasked with puttinh in new dentures for him, shortly before his execution. Jack Mallory then drilled 'Remember Pearl Harbor' in Morse Code onto his dentures.

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78kwL TIL in 1991, the last of California's manual telephone switchboards, which used pull and plug cords, was being replaced with computerized equipment. Most phone companies had replaced them in the 1950s but the owner of Kerman Telephone Company stalled because he did not want to lay off any operators
6E7dZ TIL In Japan in 1968, 4 bank employees were transporting 300M¥ in the trunk of a car. They were stopped by a young police officer, who claimed dynamite was on the car. When he crawled under to check and smoke came billowing out, they ran away. The “officer” then got in the car and drove away.
xYbD TIL Scientists discovered in 2015 that Boa Constrictors kill their prey by cutting off their blood supply, not by suffocation like it was originally assumed.
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vQoB TIL there was a group of raider colonies in ancient Egypt who terrorized the Mediterranian coast, that has gone relatively unidentified to this day. The are collectively known as the Sea Peoples, and according to Ramesses II, no one knew how to fight against them or could withstand them.