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TIL the creation of Daft Punk’s name originated from a British journalist calling their original band, Darlin’, “a bunch of daft punk”. The third member of Darlin’, not liking the new more-electronic vibe, left and formed the band Phoenix.

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Me1xW TIL: The Windows 10 default desktop image is actually a photograph and not CGI
b6Yxp Today I learned that according to a study from British psychologist Kevin Dutton, being a civil servant is the 10th career path with the highest number of psychopaths.
PGOg TIL that prior to the US dropping the atomic bombs on Japan, the US military dropped 5 million leaflets warning citizens to evacuate major Japanese cities
Z8oBD TIL the last guy to commit seppuku (ritual suicide) was Yukio Mishima in 1970. He was a japanese nationalist author, actor and director who had his own milita and tried to stage a oup d'état by taking over the armed forces heaquaters. He killed himself in the commandants office when it failed.
E1MXX TIL the real mastermind behind the Sook Ching massacre and Bataan Death March got off scot-free by hiding out in and working for China, then returned to Japan and became a member of diet, became a spy for the CIA, and vanished in Vietnam under unknown circumstances never to be seen again