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TIL The Japanese were planning a biological warfare attack on San Diego, California before the atomic bombs forced them to surrender in WWII

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e0Ll6 TIL in 1913, John D. Rockefeller was worth $900 million, or 3% of the entire GDP of the United States that year. His fortune was worth a modern equivalent of $418 billion.
LkKp9 TIL the Portuguese established a large trade of Japanese sllaves during the 16th century and favored them over Africans
mAdM TIL of Bo Gritz, a former U.S. army green beret who ran for President in the 90s, helped resolve the Ruby Ridge incident and was partially the inspiration for Hannibal from the A-Team
X0MX8 TIL that "pair of pants" is a fixed term of mathematics that describes a certain type of surface with three holes
76RM TIL that Buddhism was adopted in the Indo-Greek kingdom upto 200 years before it was spread to East Asia