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TIL of the murders in a Canadian world war 2 pow camp.

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OOwX TIL in Quechua the word “behind"is the same word as"future”. The word"In front"is the same word as"Past". Due to this, their temporal interpretation of life is that humans are walking through life backwards. They can see their past, but the future is unknown & yet to be seen, thus it is behind them.
neAJG TIL a large amount of Japanese companies are owned by 'Keiretsu', mega conglomerates of companies historically run by families. One of these Keiretsu, Sumitomo Group, owns Mazda, NEC Corporation, and Nippon Steel, and traces its history back to a Copper Refining business started 1615.
8eEk4 TIL The zeptosecond is the shortest unit of time ever measured
ADndx TIL about “crazy ants” that often form colonies within electrical equipment and can cause problems in all kinds of electrical systems similar to termites in wood.
e0d1n TIL in 1744, two Scottish Presbyterian ministers made a plan to have fellow ministers pay a small amount a year into a fund, which would be used to take care of their widows if ministers died. It became the blueprint for modern insurance, and their fund, Scottish Widows, is now worth billions.