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TIL about Hell Ships, ships that were used to ferry prisoners of war in brutal, oftentimes deadly conditions by Imperial Japan during WWII

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VBjKk TIL In 2014 Facebook conducted a psychology experiment on 700,000 of its users without their knowledge to gauge if "exposure to emotions led people to change their own posting behaviours".
b9XL0 TIL that a man living in a high crime area of Oakland, CA put out a tiny statue of Buddha in an attempt to stop illegal dumping on his property. The tiny Buddha began getting worshipped by local Vietnamese residents, and eventually crime in the area went down 82%
jN9XR Today I learned there is cat called Oscar that lives in a nursing home and it can predict the next death by going to the room of the person and sitting with them to provide comfort.
b9M69 TIL Giorgetto Giugiaro, the designer of the Delorean, also designed a special pasta shape.
oRNMA TIL There's a festival in Spain called 'El Colacho' where they lay newborn babies out in the street, after which men dressed in red and yellow costumes run and hurdle over them. This is meant to cleanse the babies of original sin and protect them in their future lives.