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TIL that the Japanese Red Cross Society was well supported by Empress Shoken and other imperial family members since its inception in 1887 and among other efforts they donated $146,000 in relief funds to San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake.

by whatilearned July 4, 2022, 10:22 pm

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TIL that the Mars Climate Orbiter, a 1998 NASA mission attempting to launch two probes in the Mars atmosphere, failed because the landing data were calculated using the imperial system, but the navigation team expected them to be written in the metric system. 328 millions dollars lost.

by whatilearned July 4, 2022, 8:25 pm

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TIL Japan’s current imperial dynasty is the oldest in the world, spanning 126 emperors, more than 2500 years and was founded in the year 660 BCE by Jimmu Tenno, son of goddess Amaterasu

by whatilearned July 2, 2022, 1:18 pm

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TIL that the air quality around the Salton Sea in the Imperial Valley (CA) is so bad that schools use green, yellow, and red flags to indicate whether children with asthma can go outside and play with their classmates

by whatilearned June 7, 2022, 4:47 pm

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TIL that at one point the Scottish had their own definition of an inch, which was just .16% different than the Imperial Inch.

by whatilearned June 1, 2022, 11:22 pm

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TIL Sima Yan, the founding emperor of the Jin Dynasty, empowered his imperial princes because he blamed the weakening of imperial princes for the preceding Wei Dynasty’s fall. Ironically, this led to the destabilization of his own dynasty and forced their retreat south of the Huai river

by whatilearned May 17, 2022, 8:47 am

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TIL the reason milk is sold in bags throughout eastern Canada is linked to the countries transition to the metric system. Dairy producers, faced with having to replace and resize existing milk containers (measured in imperial quarts), found the use of bags to be a cheaper and quicker alternative

by whatilearned April 19, 2022, 10:21 am

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TIL that the world’s current oldest living person, Kane Tanaka, has lived through all five imperial reigns that make up modern day Japan.

by whatilearned April 8, 2022, 12:49 pm

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It makes me laugh when Americans think we use metric in the UK. No, we use an ungodly mishmash of imperial and metric that makes no sense whatsoever.

by CopyPastaArchive March 11, 2022, 2:38 pm

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TIL of the Second Mexican Empire where Napoleon ruthlessly took advantage of a distracted America post Civil-War by engaging in an imperial plan to annex Mexico into the French sovereignty. Napoleon aimed to create a New Virginia Colony in central Mexico & exempted new colonists from paying taxes.

by whatilearned January 28, 2022, 3:46 am

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TIL during the chaos caused by the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake, the Imperial Japanese Army murdered an estimated 6,000 ethnic Koreans and Japanese socialists. The massacre is alternatively denied and celebrated by Japanese right-wing groups today.

by whatilearned January 21, 2022, 4:43 am

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TIL that Death by a Thousand cuts isn’t just a saying, it’s how they used to torture and execute people in Imperial China. It’s called Lingchi

by whatilearned November 27, 2021, 11:06 pm

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