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TIL, dragonball creator Akira Toriyama, took the opportunity to make protagonist; Goku, easier to draw, when he conceived him as the first “super saiyan”.

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YKlr TIL that Confucius’s family has the longest recorded extant pedigree in the world with 83 generations and two million registered descendants.
W7Xl9 TIL There were Camels hanging out with humans in North America 18000 years ago
ANZAl TIL about the "Sator Square". It contains a 5-word Latin palindrome, any which way you go. Or, it would, except the word “AREPO”, which appears nowhere else in Latin literature. Unlike the other words, it's definition is arguably lost to history.
4X4Qa TIL that Frank Goldsmith, Jr., a Titanic survivor who later lived near Navin Field (Tiger Stadium) in Detroit, never took his children to baseball games because the roar of the crowd reminded him of the screams of people dying in the freezing water.
96R7 TIL that The International Astronomical Union names all mountains on Saturn’s moon Titan after mountains in Tolkien’s work.