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TIL Dr. Oz has been the recipient of the “Pigasus Award for Refusal to Face Reality” at least three times, and has also been supportive of faith healing and communication with the dead.

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M7Y4b TIL that in 1940 the Germans conquered Denmark so quickly that the Danes didn't have time to formally declare war against them. They surrendered after 2 hours.
5YLQQ TIL Germany tried brokering peace between the China and Japan during WW2
lXVa TIL an artificially intelligent computer was programmed to reflect some of the issues present in schizophrenia, and it proceeded to claim to be a terrorist.
l79EK TIL about the Mimizuka. A monument dedicated to the 40,000 noses cut from Korean faces and brought to the Taiko Toyotomi Hideyoshi by his soldiers during the Imjin War
VMR94 TIL in 2007, Russia used a mini-submarine to plant the country's flag on the floor of the Arctic Ocean in an attempt to claim the region and its natural resources, a move that was rejected by the U.N.