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TIL about unit 731, a Japanese prison camp that engaged in biological and chemical warfare experimentation that resulted in over 10,000 deaths

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8aKO4 TIL of The Essex, an American ship which was attacked by a sperm whale in 1820. The 20-man crew set out in the surviving life boats for several months, resorting to drawing lots to decide who would be sacrificed and consumed. 8 men survived. The story was the inspiration for the novel 'Moby Dick'.
5Vlpr TIL of Hank the Tank, a black bear accused of breaking into over two dozen Lake Tahoe homes and threatened with euthanasia before later being exonerated by DNA evidence.
LboZ TIL that the easternmost point of Canada is closer to Croatia than to Vancouver
N8Je TIL that the second flag of the Confederate States of America was, in the words of its creator W.T. Thompson, a symbol of the “supremacy of the white man over the inferior or colored race”.
rRk64 TIL the Japanese word "Matchpump" マッチポンプ means "Stirring up trouble to get credit from the solution."