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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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NX47E TIL as of March 2022, the most sampled hip hop track (a hip hop song sampled by another hip hop song) of all time is “La Di Da Di” (1985) by Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick. It's been sampled over 1000 times by such artists as Naughty by Nature, The Notorious B.I.G., Snoop Dogg, Mos Def.
N5DM TIL in Chicago over the last decade more Americans have been murdered than have been killed in Afghanistan.
JvYk TIL that through a US government website you can find out how much pharmaceutical companies are bribing your specific doctor
9YZ8r TIL Kinshasa, the capital of Congo-Zaire uses robots as traffic police because they can't be bribed.
4X666 TIL in 1977 a group of Chicago Sun-Times journalists bought a dive bar and used it as a front to uncover and expose political corruption and payoffs.