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TIL There is a sushi chef in Tokyo that makes individual pieces of sushi with a single grain of rice

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xVA9B TIL that the 365-day calendar we use today was invented by the ancient Egyptians.
E1nd0 TIL of Carl Laemmle, who migrated to the US in 1884. He started one of the first movie theaters in Chicago, challenged Thomas Edison's monopoly on films, began advertising stars to increase their earnings, founded Universal and sponsored hundreds of Jews to emigrate from Nazi Germany to the US.
x6kDo TIL that boxer Harry Greb tricked his way into a shot at the Middleweight championship by paying several waiters to serve him water in coloured tumblers at a speakeasy. He then pretended to be drunk and thus no threat to the champion. Greb got his match and won the title.
5Yr7B TIL about portable nukes in the 1960s, intended for US Soldiers to parachute with into Soviet-occupied Europe and manually (suicidally) detonate.
E1Kdw TIL gene editing technology exists today