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TIL Japan has several "Nose Tombs" which contain tens of thousands of severed noses from Korea.

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Oo9wa TIL in the entire 120+ year history of Kansas University's basketball team there has been only one coach with a losing record. His name is James Naismith, the inventor of basketball.
KYo8G TIL: During the US Civil War, a Minnesota regiment captured a confederate flag, during the Battle of Gettysburg (1863), from the Virginia army. Virginia's made many requests over the years to return the flag, even getting Congress and the President to request it and each time Minnesota has refused.
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