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TIL that the founder of Mitsubishi was an actual Samurai.

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v1Wmr TIL that the name of the mathematical function sin comes from the word "bosom" which was a mistranslation from Arabic
X0ppk TIL In preparation for his role as “Bill the Butcher” in Gangs of New York (2002), Daniel Day-Lewis would often pick fights with strangers on the streets of Rome where the movie was filmed. The method acting, Day-Lewis said was “not so good for my physical or mental health”
neEVP TIL that MRI of dogs revealed that dogs prioritize the smell of their owners above anything as dog owners' aroma causes an activation activation in the "reward center" of their brains, called the caudate nucleus.
00EN TIL Blockbusting, a business practice used by real estate brokers to buy a house in a white neighbourhood, rent it to a black family, and buy the rest of the neighbourhood at a discounted price after urging nervous white families to leave the neighbourhood.
Xey6 TIL during the Nuremberg Trials, Nazi doctors defended the experiments they performed on concentration camp inmates by citing experiments performed by American researchers who had fatally infected prisoners with cholera and malaria.