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TIL a long lost 1926 Japanese silent horror film was rediscovered 45 years later, when its director found a print in his own storehouse in 1971. Nearly a third of it is still missing.

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7PQx TIL There was once a doctor who performed a xenotransplantation on a baby that sufferd fom heart disease by transplanting a baboon heart. The baby died. When asked why he didn’t use a heart from an evolutionary closer animal, he replied “I do not believe in evolution”
0wkAA TIL that the United States Congress has not issued a formal declaration of war since June of 1942 (against Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania). And the USA has never "lost" such a Congressionally-declared war.
Nj1E TIL that, thanks to a communication failure, a lot more US soldiers died during the preparation excersize for the “Utah Beach” Normandy invasion than the actual invasion itself.
D1JZp TIL that a judge told a convicted serial killer; "You will be strangled to death in front of the parents whose children you killed, Your body will then be cut into 100 pieces and put in acid, the same way you killed the children." The killer died before that happened.
nWN9b TIL Hatsune Miku (a virtual pop idol) made an appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman in 2014. A bewildered Dave compared the experience to "like being on Willie Nelson's tour bus".