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TIL That Queen guitarist Brian May helped NASA land the Mars Rover aswell as guide them towards an asteroid

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xNk7 TIL that, when the mastermind behind the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hideki Tojo, was found with a self inflicted gunshot wound in his chest, he was pumped full of American blood, allowed to recover, and then later hanged for his war crimes.
oj57 TIL - Lake Jackson, TX has streets named This Way, That Way, Any Way, Circle Way, Parking Way, Winding Way, His Way, and Which Way.
wOa7 TIL Switzerland is rigged with over 3000 demolition points to collapse bridges and create bomb shelters in event of an attack
vaZ8 TIL that Syphilis can be cured by contracting Malaria. (The person who discovered it got a Nobel prize for it)