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TIL of Charles Dickinson West who was hired by the Empire of Japan in 1882 to teach steam engine mechanics & mechanical engineering at Tokyo University. He assisted in the development of the Imperial Japanese Navy & was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun by Emperor Meiji in 1905.

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5YmXk TIL that before becoming a cult leader and murderer, Charles Manson was a song writer who had songs performed by a number of artists, including The Beach Boys.
R7do8 TIL that the Winter Soldier’s theme contains a slowed and filtered version of Bucky’s scream during his death in Captain America: The First Avenger. You can even hear Steve yell, “Bucky!” (albeit heavily modified).
gMNKW TIL that during the 1902 Coal Miners Strike, as the winter approached and homes could not get heat, Theodore Roosevelt threatened to nationalize the coal industry if the magnates did not agree to some of labor's demands
aJoM TIL that while in Rome in the 1570’s El Greco dismissed Michelangelo’s Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel and extended an offer to Pope Pius V to paint over the whole work in accord with the new and stricter Catholic thinking.
JYYN4 Eating less food—whole food and junk food, meat and plants, organic and conventional, GMO and non-GMO—would do a lot more than just better our personal health.