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TIL that between 3.000 and 12.000 men, women and children died at Unit 731, a facility kept by the Imperial Japanese Army dedicated to human experimentation. It was responsible for most notorious war crimes committed by Japan.

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yQGG8 TIL about Sessue Hayakawa, a Japanese-born actor who became a major Hollywood star in the early silent film period of the 1910's, and noted for his status as a sex symbol, with "his most rabid fan base [being] white women."
4XReg TIL that the last survivor of the Crimean War, which ended in 1856, died in 2004 at the age of 160. She was a female tortoise named Timothy who was a mascot for several British naval vessels during the war.
4BM5 TIL that back in the day, the guard who stood in the watchtower would ring a bell when the tower’s shadow disappeared (signalling midday and the start of a new watchman’s shift). This is how the term “watch” became associated with telling time!
pbJZ TIL the amount of electricity running the Bitcoin Network could power 1.3 million homes.
KeWa TIL Eight people used Muhammad Ali’s legendary fight as a diversion to break into an FBI office. The stolen documents expose FBI of doing illegal surveillance