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TIL in Dragon Ball Z, the name of the spirit bomb (Genki Dama) is a pun on “denki gama”, meaning “electric rice cooker” in Japanese

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wL7Y7 TIL about CANZUK, a theoretical political and economic union of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. The international body would be similar in scope to the former European Economic Community and focus on trade, foreign policy co-operation, and military co-operation between the four nations.
GG6Q TIL Texas Billionaire T. Cullen Davis hired a hit man to kill his wife which caused the death of his stepdaughter. He later was caught on tape arranging for a hit man to kill his wife and the judge overseeing his divorce proceedings. He was acquitted both times.
KeWa TIL Eight people used Muhammad Ali’s legendary fight as a diversion to break into an FBI office. The stolen documents expose FBI of doing illegal surveillance
dVRB TIL a US soldier that stepped on a land mine in Vietnam was told he wouldn’t walk again. While recovering and awaiting discharge, he would sneak out of his hospital bed at night and perform self-rehab. He walked out of the hospital and later became one of the most famous Green Berets in history.
woV96 TIL In the middle half of the nineteenth century, more than one-half of the population of Ireland emigrated to the United States