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TIL during World War II, Japan bombed China with fleas infected with Bubonic Plague

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b6OE0 TIL American paratroopers with the 173rd Airborne Brigade mistakenly raided a working olive oil factory in Bulgaria as part of a large-scale joint exercise with NATO forces.
4kmwb TIL after Mary Ann Bevan's husband died in 1914, she couldn't support herself & her 4 children.So since she had developed acromegaly, she decided to capitalize on her appearance & enter an "ugliest woman" contest & won.She was then hired as a "freak show" & made $1.6 mllion in today's money in 2 yrs
VBpm TIL that US soldiers in WWII were promised a quart of icecream if they refrained from killing Japanese POWs.
b9ZBZ TIL the Celebrity Jeopardy sketch from SNL was created purely as an excuse so Norm Macdonald could do his Burt Reynolds impersonation
PYLxV TIL: Actor Dick Van Dike didn't know his actual birthday until he was 18. His parents lied to him about his birth date to cover up the fact that he was conceived out of wedlock.