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TIL American troops committed over 10,000 rapes in the space of just three months during the occupation of Japan

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X0eBr TIL that General Mills acquired Red Lobster in 1970 when they only had 5 locations.
MQlB TIL that a Massachusetts man who was wrongly imprisoned for 18 years for murder, was finally freed after his high-school drop-out sister went to law school to prove his innocence. 6 months after his release, he died in a freak accident.
D1Nne TIL In 1929, W. Forssmann performed the first human heart cath on himself. He tricked the OR nurse, put himself under local anesthesia, inserted a catheter into his arm, then walked to the X-ray room to see if it reached his heart. He was fired from the hospital, but awarded the Nobel Prize in 1956.
Z8544 TIL the inventor of the Saxophone, Adolphe Sax survived multiple near death experiences as a child such as; falling from a height of 3 stories and hitting his head on a stone, drinking a bowl of vitriolized water age 3 and surviving a gunpowder explosion that left him seriously burnt, among others
mKVM TIL that on the death of his mother, Jimi Hendrix’s father refused to take him the funeral, instead giving the then 15 year old shots of whiskey and informing him that this was how men dealt with loss.