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TIL that in 1894 Japan offered to buy the Philippines from Spain for 40 million pounds.

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DQoGP TIL n 1953, during the Korean War, the U.S. government launched "Operation Moolah". The goal was to get North Korean pilots to defect and bring their planes with them. In exchange, the pilot would receive $50,000 cash and asylum in a non-Communist country. No pilots defected though.
D10Me TIL that when the chief model maker for Thomas the Tank Engine left his rock band in 1970, he was replaced by Freddie Mercury and his former band became Queen
awxE0 TIL about physician Fukuchi Masaichi. His research on the subject of human skin brought him into contact with many people that had tattoos. He therefore became interested in 1926 in the art of Japanese tattoo,led autopsies on corpses,removed the skin and did research on methods to preserve the skin.
5Y7MB TIL in "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory", in newspaper reports about the fraudulent "winner" of the fifth golden ticket in Paraguay, the man pictured is real-life Nazi Martin Bormann; the joke by the director was that he had fled like many other Nazis to South America.
b9xn9 TIL that young girls in Cameroon would forcefully flatten their breasts, so they wouldn't be sexually harassed or sold off to marriage by their fathers, as men in Cameroon associate breast growth with sexual maturity and consent.