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TIL Nioh was originally based on an unfinished Akira Kurosawa script

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E1Ygx TIL among the thousands of men on the Normandy beaches on D-Day there was one single woman. Martha Gellhorn, a rogue war correspondent who stowed away in the toilet of a hospital ship and also happened to be the third wife of Ernest Hemingway.
wLLa1 TIL that the term 'leotard' was named for the first person to complete the Flying Trapeze Act in 1859, Jules Leotard
Y78eZ TIL that most of the bodies of climbers that have perished on Mount Everest remain where they died. In fact, climbers now use some of these bodies as landmarks during their climb.
AN9Ag TIL that Charles Martinet, the voice actor of Mario, was living out of a suitcase for 5 years. In 2013, he was evicted from his home due to a legal dispute with the family of his deceased landlord.
XEGQX TIL The international Milky Way bar, which is sold as 3 Musketeers in the US; and the US version of the milky way is sold as the Mars bar elsewhere. The US Mars bar was a Milky bar with Almonds an was discontinued in 2002 and replaced with the snickers almond