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TIL of Rotherham, England. A town where approx. 1400 sexual child abuse cases occurred but were never solved because those in charge didn’t want to be deemed as racist and for fear of losing job.

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LABV TIL of Japan’s Unit 731, which committed some of the most terrible war crimes in World War II, including human vivisections, innoculation of diseases, and exposure to radiation and poison gas to thousands of innocent Chinese and Russians. These crimes are still denied by the Japanese people today.
0d0Wj TIL Apple Pie isn't all that American, despite the saying "As American as Apple Pie." Neither Apples nor Apple Pie are unique to, nor originally from America.
KYNW6 TIL The only known naturally occuring nuclear fission reactor was discovered in Oklo, Gabon and is thought to have been active 1.7 billion years ago. This discovery in 1972 was made after chemists noticed a significant reduction in fissionable U-235 within the ore coming from the Gabonese mine.
1QY7 TIL At the high school graduation of Michael Reagan, Ronald Reagan’s adopted son, Ronald Reagan forgot who his son was, greeting him with “My name is Ronald Reagan. What’s yours?”
R5484 TIL There were ads in the back of 60's and 70's comic books that allowed kids to order a live monkey through the mail.