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

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vA4K TIL that Kenyan javelin thrower Julius Yego, who won Olympic silver this year, learned how to throw properly by watching YouTube videos.
WkPoA TIL that in 3 days Queen Elizabeth II will move from 7th to 6th place in the list of oldest serving state leaders of all time, surpassing George Tupou I King of Tonga.
gWKD TIL that the Army will be replacing its ineffective ‘digital print’ camo gear in early 2013
WgV9 TIL there is a snake in Africa whose venom causes your blood to not only stop clotting but to come running out of every hole on your body. Its called the boomslang snake.
E1VZp TIL about the Three-Fifths Compromise, where slaves were counted as 3/5 of a citizen. The Southern states wanted more seats in Congress than they might achieve with only white people, but counting them as equal would be plainly hypocritical, since slaves did no have the rights of free people.