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

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8eGg4 TIL that when USS Taylor was transporting members of the press off USS Missouri after the signing of the Japanese surrender, the ship's mascot, a dog named Subic who had been abused during the Japanese occupation of The Philippines, bit one of the Japanese newsmen in the leg.
wl86 TIL in 2007, a middle school principle in Bethlehem, PA was arrested for being a meth dealer. He was arrested in his office, where he was found naked and watching gay porn with sex toys nearby.
grAjX TIL "How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming" is a memoir by Mike Brown, the American astronomer most responsible for the reclassification of Pluto from planet to dwarf planet. It is an account of the events surrounding the redefinition of 'planet' that eventually changed the status of Pluto.
wLxWo TIL Alec Guinness warned James Dean about his car one week before the deadly crash
YpekA TIL that Disney World once had its own airport with a runway that sang. It had grooves in the tarmac that were spaced such that when a plane reached 45 mph, it played Pinocchio's 'When You Wish Upon A Star".