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TIL Takijiro Onishi, Father Of The Kamikaze, Committed Seppuku To Atone For The Pilots He Helped To Kill

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vPBNj TIL about an illustrious Royal Navy ship name, passed down through four ships for one hundred and thirty five years, but for some unknown reason never used again after 1947. I present to you the history of the ‘HMS Cockchafer’
QJAPp TIL Santa was skinny for most of his existence. In 1863, cartoonist Thomas Nast began drawing him with a huge stomach. Both the skinny and fat versions of Santa existed into the 1930's, when Coca Cola used a fat Santa in their advertisings, forever cementing that image in pop culture.
LwVv TIL-55% of the world population has brown eyes, 5-8% has hazel eyes, 8% has blue eyes, 2% has green eyes, and small percentages have silver or amber eyes. Eye color is unique just like fingerprints.
v1wAL TIL that there was a persistent myth that a race of pygmy humans lived in Tennessee. In reality, these were normal bones of Native Americans secondarily buried in short stone coffins.
p8apN TIL Jimi Hendrix played guitar in Little Richard's band until he was fired for being too flamboyant, out-dressing, and up staging the singer