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TIL a Stanford study found out of China, Japan, Korea, or the US, Japan had the LEAST nationalistic history textbooks, despite other claims you may read on Reddit.

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V4B8 TIL The BEANO T-13 hand grenade was an experimental hand grenade developed by the OSS in the later years of WWII. The designers believed that by emulating the size and weight of a baseball, any American young man should be able to properly throw the grenade with both accuracy and distance.
9YyoQ TIL obesity can impact the size of your brain.
KO1G6 TIL Joe Francis, creator of Girls Gone Wild as seen in late night 90's infomercials, has since been convicted of false imprisonment, child abuse, and prostitution.
kLgm TIL: There are still people around with plutonium-powered nuclear pacemakers implanted in their bodies. 9 were still working as of 2007, 35 years after implantation. They work on the same thermoelectric principle as the New Horizons spacecraft’s power source.
GYgpg TIL in 2014, a stalker trespassed on Keanu Reeves' home. Keanu calmly talked to the stalker and called the police, who arrived and arrested her. Three days later, a second stalker made her way into his home, took a shower in his bathroom and swam naked in his pool.