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TIL that DJ Steve Aoki’s father is the founder of the Benihana restaurant chain

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pY8rO TIL that Yahweh is not the actual name of the Abrahamic God but a representation of the consonants within, YHWH. God's full name was considered too sacred to spell out entirely and thus the real vowels within are lost to time.
0a1 TIL there was a DC villain called “Snowflame” who gained super powers by doing lots of cocaine.
r7m1 TIL that the location of origin of each American can be broadly identified by the way they pronounce just four words - “bomb”, “balm”, “cot” and “caught”.
Y7XYv TIL that in 1933, yo-yos were banned in Syria, because many locals superstitiously blamed the use of them for a severe drought.
OX16 TIL President John F. Kennedy was a huge James Bond fan. He viewed an early print of ‘From Russia with Love’ at the White House on Nov 21st, 1963. It was the last film he ever saw, he was killed the next day in Dallas.