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TIL There's currently no evidence that Japanese Admiral Yamamoto said "I'm afraid we've awakened a sleeping giant"

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6ml7 TIL that there is a hardcore full contact style of Karate called “Kyokushin” which means “The Ultimate Truth” in Japanese where students fight barehanded and have to fight 100 people in a row in order to get a black belt.
R759 TIL in 1995 a man robbed a bank with lemon juice on his face. Since lemon juice makes for invisible ink he thought it would render his face invisible on camera.
bD8E TIL That U.S President John F. Kennedy read 600 words per minute, more than double the speed of an average person
VBod8 TIL that Oprah's real name is "Orpah"
KYvoB TIL that Dr. Josef Mengele, the Nazi war criminal who did barbaric medical experiments on Auschwitz prisoners, survived WW2. In 1979, he drowned in Brazil, where his skeleton is now used as an educational aid at medical school.