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TIL Japan has a lower obesity rate than North Korea

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nWwpP TIL the U.S. Army’s 27th Infantry Division fought off the largest banzai attack in World War II. Over 4,000 Japanese soldiers were killed and the fighting was so fierce that a U.S. Army dentist was awarded the Medal of Honor.
ZpWdp TIL John Paul Jones, famous naval officer of the American Revolutionary War, was born in Arbigland, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, and fled the country to avoid arrest after killing a mutinous subordinate. He later killed another mutinous crew member in Tobago, and 18 months later, was in Virginia.
LkpXd TIL that there is a third world trade center tower in China, looking exactly like the ones in New York.
mxOMR TIL about "Grain entrapment", when a person becomes submerged in grain and gets stuck, often suffocating beneath the corn.
6EGv8 TIL that Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night was a 1945 plan developed by Shirō Ishii to wage biological warfare upon civilian population centers in Southern California in the United States during the final months of World War II, using plague fleas from unit 731.