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TIL about "Yasuke." Began researching Japanese history a few weeks ago and came across the first foreign born samurai

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LkGQV TIL the album Devil Without a Cause by Kid Rock sold 15 Million selling more copies than the albums Smash, Ten, Nothing's Shocking, Load, & Hybrid Theory.
LrOr TIL The soviet military trained dogs strapped with explosives to conduct kamikaze-style attacks on enemy tanks. the concept backfired horribly, with scared dogs often running back to their trainers…killing them
wpWo TIL a monument marking where Captain James Cook was killed in Hawaii, and about 25 square feet of land around it, is owned by the United Kingdom.
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