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TIL that when accepting Japan's surrender in WW2, the Canadian representative signed on the wrong line. This set off a chain reaction of wrong signatures that ended with MacArthur's Chief of Staff having to cross out and amend the document in pen.

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EB0P TIL that the breathing fluid in The Abyss(1989) is real and that the scene with the rat breathing the fluid wasn’t faked, with the rat actually breathing the oxygenated fluid.
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