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TIL that American soldiers during WWII often mutilated the Japanese and took their body parts as “war trophies”, Franklin Roosevelt was even sent a gift of a Japanese soldier’s arm.

oRyJ8 TIL at age 25, Sharlto Copley ran a production company and allowed, then 19 year old, Neill Blomkamp to work there in exchange for use of their computers to pursue animation and design. Roughly 10 years on, Neill casts Sharlto in the Oscar nominated District 9 as well as later in Elysium and Chappie
OGGJ4 TIL Lam Kor-wan 林過雲 is one of Hong Kong's two known serial killers. He worked as a taxi driver and killed 4 women. He would pick up female passengers, strangle them, then take them to his family home, and dismember them. He was caught by trying to develop photographs of his victims in a Kodak shop.
l7M8r TIL that in 1797, conditions at Rugby School were so bad that the pupils staged a "Great Rebellion". The headmaster's office was blown up with gunpowder and troops had to be called in to restore order. The ringleader later rose to the rank of General in the British Army.
e7nJ TIL that the Candiru Fish (the fish that supposedly swims up your pee stream) can’t actually swim up your pee stream, and can not enter your urethra. The only recorded case is from 1997 and shrouded in a lot of doubt.
G00Q TIL that bilingual children appear to get a head start on empathy-related skills such as learning to take someone else’s perspective. This is because they have to follow social cues to figure out which language to use with which person and in what setting.