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TIL Tojo missed his heart when he tried to shoot himself as GIs came to arrest him, he was subsequently arrested, hospitalized, charged with war crimes, coerced into absolving the imperial family for any of said war crimes, and hung.

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6E95Y National Geographic Explorer Olivier Nsengimana has set out to rescue captive grey-crowned cranes. Along with his team, he began a program taking cranes out of captivity and placing them back into their natural habitat.
0dPbA TIL: The Trojan Ballistics Suit of Armor was a planned exoskeleton suit inspired by the MJOLNIR armor from the Halo series for Canadian soldiers featured on the Discovery Channel. Features included wrist sheaths and in suit morphine injections. The inventor died in a car crash before he finished it.
9YwgM TIL: Pikachu is more recognizable than Mickey Mouse
bgP0 TIL Norway is the only national football team in the world that has never lost to Brazil. (2 wins and 2 draws)
nWJmY TIL about Jesse James biopic made in 1927. His light-hearted portrayal was found inaccurate by those who still remembered him as a vicious murderer, and the movie failed.