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TIL The Typical U.S. Home Changes Hands Every 13.2 Years

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KYrMG TIL that the body of a 74-year-old woman who died of Alzheimer's in 2013 and whose son donated her body to Alzheimer's research was callously blown up by the U.S. Army for a "roadside bomb damage" experiment, despite her son's explicit wishes to exclude non-medical experiments and military use.
e0JVg TIL: A pop group was formed in Japan with the aim of "singing and dancing away" its insolvent members' personal debt.
rR0vx TIL that between 1949 and 1952, the national anthem of West Germany was “Ich hab' mich ergeben”, which translates to “I surrender”
EKKw TIL that Japan planned to deploy biological weapons against the city of San Diego, California, codenamed “Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night”, which was set for action on September 22, 1945, but not realized due to Japan’s surrender on August 15, 1945.
vPgjL TIL that actor Michael Rapaport publicly feuded with NBA player Kevin Durant on Twitter, leading to a series of heated exchanges and eventually Rapaport exposing private DMs he received from Durant containing threats and homophobic and misogynistic slurs.