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TIL Pacha an Incan cosmological concept associating the physical world and space with time, and corresponding with the concept of space-time

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pdBN TIL that Satoshi Tajiri (the creator of Pokémon), made Pokémon faint instead of die because he believed there was already enough violence in videogames and that kids should have a realistic, serious outlook on death.
WkWaA TIL that the plot of the 2019 film "Joker" was inspired by the real life 1984 NYC Subway shooting. The depiction of the Joker is partially based on Bernard Goetz, who shot and wounded 4-teenagers after being allegedly harassed for money.
wobao TIL General Minoru Genda, a key planner of the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor, survived the war and was honored by the US Air Force with the Legion of Merit award.
R5d7j TIL France was still executing criminals by guillotine after ABBA won Eurovision
grvGy TIL Fritz Haber invented a process of ammonia synthesis both to save the world from starvation and to serve the German war machine. He never saw the creation of Zyklon B from his process and its use by the Nazis to kill his relatives in the gas chambers.