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TIL: The Number of Centenarians in Japan Rises Above 90,000

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4XOG5 TIL the US and UK intentionally avoided the Geneva conventions to avoid accountability for the mistreatment of German POWs, instead designating them 'Disarmed Enemy Forces'. This lead to large, wired in enclosures with poor shelter and other necessities, and prohibited the Red Cross from intervening
KO4Q9 TIL about an experiment of transferring a 700 MB file via three delivery methods to determine which was the fastest: A carrier pigeon with a microSD card, a car with a USB Stick, or a Telstra ADSL line. The pigeon won the race; the car came in second; the internet transfer did not finish.
1a4r8 TIL of the Battle Of Bowmanville in 1942 where approximately 100 Canadian soldiers quelled a rebellion of German POWs using only hockey sticks and water cannons.
Qnnp TIL Winston Churchill once said “You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing—after they have tried everything else.”
Aado TIL in the 1912 Summer Olympics Shizo Kanakuri stopped for water at the 19 mile mark, fell asleep and deserted. After being missing for 50+ years he returned to complete the marathon with a time of 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 5 hours, 32 minutes and 20.379 seconds.