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TIL of Unit 731, a covert Japanese research group that carried out human experimentation during WWII to study chemical and biological warfare. The are considered to be responsible for some of the worst war crimes in history for the tens of thousand who died during the experiments.

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ne1RY TIL that John Krasinski and B. J. Novak, who respectively played Jim and Ryan from the US version of The Office, were high school classmates.
0wZkA TIL of Skarð, a village on the Feroes Islands that was abandoned in 1913, when the entire male population perished on a fishing accident.
GYV57 TIL the Parliament building in Bucharest is so massive that even though it already contains both lower and upper houses of parliament, three museums, and an international conference centre, 70% of the building is still empty. The heating and electrical bill alone amounts to $6 million a year.
1aVGr TIL that Bill Murray signed up for the Garfield movie because he thought Joel Coen, of the Coen Brothers, was the writer; however, the writer was Joel Cohen, the man who wrote Toy Story and Cheaper by the Dozen. He still did the movie. And the sequel.