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TIL: Ancient Egyptians were the first to take body shaving seriously

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0wlxj TIL of Mitsuyasu Maeno, a right-wing Japanese porn actor who while dressed as WW2 kamikaze pilot made a suicide attack with his airplane into the house of ultranationalist Yoshio Kodama.
4amN TIL: That your car speedometer could show an error of almost ten km/h
voM7 TIL of Dr. Howard Jones, who in 1978 was forced into retirement due to rigid age restrictions for surgeons at Johns Hopkins. Rather than end his medical career, Jones moved to Virginia, where in 1981 at the age of 70, he performed the first IVF case in the U.S. He died in 2015 at the age of 104.
VjoB TIL there is a game called Tamerlane chess which is similar to chess, with a different board, and includes elephants, camels, generals, war machines, 11 types of pawns, and several other pieces.
7lLX TIL that skateboarding legend Tony Hawk has an IQ of 144 and was bullied for being a skater in high school.