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TIL that Takashi Yamazaki, the director of Godzilla: Minus One worked on the puppets used in the SNES Star Fox marketing

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J1lmB TIL that to satisfy a record contract, goth rocker Andrew Eldritch recorded an album as the band SSV-NSMABAAOTWMODAACOTIATW, said to stand for "Screw Shareholder Value - Not So Much a Band as Another Opportunity to Waste Money on Drugs and Ammunition Courtesy of the Idiots at Time Warner.”
Z8Jl4 TIL John. F. Kennedy's brain was stored at the National Archive after his autopsy. The brain was lost in 1966 and has been missing since.
nW0Ad TIL, during a set at the 1995 US Open, tennis player Shuzo Matsuoka collapsed from severe cramping for several minutes and was defaulted for delaying the match. The incident led to a rule change in professional tennis to allow players to receive medical treatment during matches without forfeiting.
gMb9b TIL That the British presided over the death of over 16 million Indians due to negligence/ignorance/mismanagement of famines and prevention of relief efforts, and then deliberately starved to 1.5 - 4 million Indians to death during WW2.
p6OA TIL that ‘saddam hussein’ is a golf term meaning to go from bunker to bunker