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TIL that Godzilla was named an official citizen and tourism ambassador of Japan in 2015.

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MeKe0 TIL of Alcuin. An English scholar who taught Charlemagne the remnants of Latin culture left in Britain. He also convinced Charles to stop forced baptisms, writing "We must appeal to the conscience, not compel it by violence. You can force people to be baptised, but you cannot force them to believe."
W7JN TIL an heir to the Jameson whiskey company bought a 10-year old girl in the Congo and gave her to cannibals so he could document how she was prepared and eaten.
XjmD TIL that a pinch, dash, and a smidgen are all legitimate measurements. A dash is 1/8 tsp, a pinch 1/16 tsp, and a smidgen 1/32 tsp.
p8olb TIL Tom Morello, the front man of Rage Against the Machine, is a Harvard Graduate
D1NwV TIL A woman was successfully diagnosed in 1984 with a brain tumor, after she began hearing unknown voices in her head that told her she needed to have a brain scan.