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TIL Baboons kidnap puppies and raise them as pets.

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AmEx TIL there are only 12 people in the world who have ever dived past 790 ft recreationally. That is the same number as the number of people who walked on the moon.
78a7p TIL of Jazz kissa, a style of jazz clubs unique to Japan that thrived around the 1950s to the 1970s. Patrons would go to these clubs where jazz is played for dedicated listening rather than as background music. Silence is required and a "masuta" serves the customers drinks and DJ's the music set.
oRAX7 Today I learned that the green and yellow on the Brazilian flag correspond to a tribute to the royal houses of Portugal and Austria respectively. These colors appeared on the Brazilian Empire flag and remain on the current Brazilian flag.
k0B1 TIL that after the fall of Singapore in WWII the Japanese executed men with tattoos, on the basis that they were probably criminals
J1R51 TIL Yokozuna was not Japanese but Samoan