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TIL that Leonardo da Vinci was a strong 15th Century animal rights activist and a devout vegetarian way before it was hip to be so.

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ZpLpv TIL that William Brown, the Irish admiral who is called "father of the Argentine Navy", once spared Giuseppe Garibaldi, the future unifier of Italy, from execution as Brown saw the battle as dishonourable due his marines in acting on personal vendettas on some of the enemy troops.
BJer TIL Trash is America’s #1 export to China
rREjd TIL: As of 2015, Japan's pachinko market generates more gambling revenue than that of Las Vegas, Macau and Singapore combined.
eWAL TIL Edge of Tomorrow, adapted from All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, who was inspired from his experience from playing video games; when getting stuck on a level, you keep reliving the same battle by spawning and each time you respawn, you’re more efficient and skilled at the game.
rb44 TIL that Winston Churchill entered the UK Parliament in 1900 as a Conservative. He defected to the Liberal Party in 1904 but returned to the Conservatives in 1924, saying “Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain ingenuity to re-rat.”