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TIL a Japanese soldier was convicted of war crimes for waterboarding a US civilian.

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Lrjr TIL: Skull fragments Soviets claimed to be Hitler have been DNA tested and said to be that of a woman.
o4jo TIL when the West Virginia was raised after being sunk in the attack in Pearl Harbor the bodies of three sailors were found in an airtight hold along with evidence that the men had survived sixteen days after the attack.
v16Ar TIL that the part of sea urchins we eat ("uni") are their sex organs.
xE8o TIL there is a giant straw goat in Sweden that has been burned down 28 times since 1966
wDK6 TIL Blue angel slugs collect venom from the Portuguese man o’ war, their prey, to create dangerous stingers which protect them from predators