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TIL that Japanese war crimes in China were so severe that Nazi officials unsuccessfully pleaded with Hitler to intervene.

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9wWaD TIL about ternary plots. You can visualise 3 quantities on a 2d triangular graph if they add up to a constant (eg. soil components or colour composition). One graph is “x+y+z=1” which makes a triangle on positive axes, with the regular 3d gridlines intersecting to form triangular ones in the graph.
DQPLJ TIL that the video game Super Meat Boy is based on a Newgrounds game named Meat Boy
DXpv TIL in 1969, Carl Sagan wrote an essay under pen-name “Mr. X” about how “marijuana produced a very rich array of insights” in the book “Marihuana Reconsidered”, who enjoyed smoking marijuana quite frequently
NmVb TIL: There are over 40 US states that tax Tampons and Pads as “Luxury” goods.
Abk7 TIL that 62.1% of bankruptcies in the US are due to medical bills. Most medical debtors were well educated and middle class; three quarters had health insurance. Unaffordable medical bills and income shortfalls due to illness were common causes.