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TIL that Japanese fusion guitarist Masayoshi Takanaka performs with a fully functional guitar built into a professional-grade surfboard. It weighs 13 lbs (6 kg) and he primarily uses it for his song "Taj Mahal."

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R7Oxl TIL that while Sonora Smart Dodd heard a church sermon about Mother’s Day she felt that fatherhood needed recognition as well. She approached a church and suggested June 5th (her father’s birthday) as the day of honour for fathers. The church chose the third Sunday in June to be Father’s Day.
8elNP TIL that Supai, AZ is the most remote community in the contiguous US. It is 8 miles from the nearest road and is only accessible by foot, mule, or helicopter. It is the only place in the United States where mail is still carried in and out by mules.
AXMl TIL Subway is just as unhealthy as McDonalds, according to researchers at UCLA
b9B70 TIL that there have been two successful penile transplants in South Africa, as well as an UNSUCCESSFUL one in China that had to be reversed because the wife of the forty-four-year-old recipient panicked at the idea that he now had someone else's penis
aPGZ TIL there hasn’t been an indoor mall built in the US in nearly 10 years.