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TIL That Animators In Japan Are So Underpaid And Worn Followers Started A Philanthropic Structure So Struggling Anime Artists Can Make It Through In Tokyo.

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MYEB TIL that the word ‘plastic’ in 'plastic surgery’ is in no way a reference to the petroleum based engineered material, but actually denotes 'sculpting or reshaping’, from the Greek derived word 'πλαστική’ (plastikē), “the art of modelling” of malleable flesh.
EgOWx TIL that the Los Angeles Police Department's largest sex abuse investigation on record was against a gynecologist.
yD9J TIL The top 3 highest paid persons on the Department of Defense payroll are the Football Coaches of the 3 Military Academies.
J1dG1 TIL Nixon and Kissinger funded the kidnapping/assassination of a Chilean General who wanted to prevent civil war. CIA provided one of the conspirators with a life-insurance policy and “hush money”, while another received guns, ammunition and $50,000 in cash to carry out the plot.
v11Mx TIL That Canada has an official way to fold it's flag and it's different from the US method. It ends in a rectangle instead of a triangle.