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TIL Mao Zedong's eldest son was killed by a US napalm strike on North Korea

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e0KVL TIL A man called Miyamoto Musashi is considered the greatest swordsman who ever lived and even defeated legendary swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. He arrived on the Island where they were due to fight, late, and with a wooden sword he'd carved out of an oar of the boat he used to get to the island.
YVN7 TIL Kevin Smith once called the father of a heckler during a panel and told him his son is acting up and smoking weed.
bAEQ TIL Charles Byrne (aka “The Irish Giant”) in 1783 feared grave robbers would steal & dissect his body after his death, he requested that his coffin be weighed down & buried at the bottom of the sea. Before burial, his corpse was stolen, dissected, & his skeleton still on display to this day.
6EDJQ TIL that Japan had no intention of surrendering after the nukes were dropped until emperor Hirohito stepped in. This made some generals so mad that they tried to stage a coup to overthrow the emperor to keep the war going.
ne6k9 TIL that 3.2 metric tons of evidence was gathered by the FBI in their investigation of the Oklahoma City bombing