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TIL: Japan's Kamikaze attack unit included scuba divers that would walk under ships to suicide-bomb them.

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o1rW TIL when Oprah gave the audience cars back in 2004, they were not really free. They had to pay about $6,000 in federal and income taxes. Some people paid the taxes by taking out car loans; others traded their new Pontiacs for cheaper, less souped-up cars.
NXVE TIL The Vatican’s chief astronomer has stated there is no conflict between believing in God and in the possibility of extraterrestrial “brothers” perhaps more evolved than humans.
mjkP TIL that during America’s eugenics movement some 60,000 people were involuntarily sterilized. The Supreme Court upheld the practice in an opinion written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, who wrote that “three generations of imbeciles is enough.”
WkJkd TIL that after Nietzsche's death, his sister, Elizabeth reworked his unpublished writings to fit her own nationalist ideology, contradictory to Friedrich Nietzsche's opposition to antisemitism and nationalism.
ejBn TIL before becoming host of the bizarre foods series, Andrew Zimmern was homeless, addicted to drugs and alcohol, and would steal to support his habit.