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TIL about "kulning", a Norwegian song using high-pitched vocal techniques to call cows in from the pastures.

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GAn71 TIL during the international Tokyo Trial of the Japanese Leadership during WWII, Justice Pal from India was the sole dissenter who found that the defendants were all innocent as he argued that the crimes they were accused of were not illegal when they were committed.
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