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TIL that on this date in 1937, the Japanese army entered Nanking - setting off a six-week orgy of rape, torture and murder that killed over 300,000 people.

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bNE7 TIL that babies can tell the faces of lemurs and other primates apart, but lose this ability as they get older and specialize on human faces
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