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TIL The first movie ever released on DVD was Twister

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b9aXj TIL multiple American POWs in the hands of the Japanese were used as subjects in medical experiments. In one such experiment, an anesthetized prisoner had his entire lung removed, and in another, doctors drilled through the skull of a live prisoner.
wL1VJ TIL that when a new IKEA was built in Valladolid, Spain, in 2011, the company held an online poll on how to name the road leading to the store. The majority voted for: "Calle Me falta un tornillo" ("I'm missing a screw Road"), and IKEA and the municipal administration named the road accordingly.
AdRo TIL the day after September 11th, the British Field Band played the American National Anthem out of respect during the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace
XE0mR TIL military planners expected as many as 400 times the casualties that were suffered during D-Day in 1944 for the Allied landing on Japan. The operation was canceled by the atomic bombs and the Japanese surrender.
69PJ TIL there is a tribe living on an island in the Bay of Bengal that we still know almost nothing about because they still violently resist contact.