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TIL Count Juan Raphael Dante, a director of the US Karate Association until 1962, didn't like the focus on ceremony, tradition, and protocol, over "effectiveness", so he created the "Dance of Death" system, taught in a mail-order booklet, World's Deadliest Fighting Secrets, advertised in comic books

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WlwB TIL of Ming the clam, who was the oldest animal ever found whose age could be accurately determined, at 507. The actual sex of the clam, however, is unknown, as its reproductive state was recorded as “spent.”
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