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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.

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D1B0j TIL that the writer Anaïs Nin was bigamously married and kept the two husbands secret from one another. She had a “lie box” to keep track of the stories she told both husbands. Some twenty years later, she revealed the secret and both men forgave her after they learnt she was dying from cancer.
GJ91 TIL German poet Heinrich Heine left his entire fortune to his wife, but with one catch: she had to remarry “because then there will be at least one man to regret my death.”
X0Z4j TIL: In order to perform a Ushi no toki Mairi curse, the practitioner wears white and tall clogs, dons an iron crown with 3 candles, suspends a mirror from their chest, then nails an effigy of her target to a tree between 1-3am. In Japanese law it is a textbook example of "impossibility defense".
kJPDm TIL that flags fly at half-mast or half-staff to make room for an invisible flag of death to be flown above it.
9pnB TIL scientists, via brain scanning, communicated with a man in coma who told them he was not in pain.