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TIL: Popular DJ Steve Aoki is the heir to the Benihana restaurant franchise

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R5Lwj TIL that Boris Yeltsin lost 2.5 fingers on his left hand when trying to open up a grenade as a teenager
oRAmE TIL Jehovahs Witnesses approach businesses just as often as personal residences and see it as part of their mission.
BrA5d TIL the first submarine attack on a ship occurred in 1864, when the CSS Hunley sank the sloop-of-war USS Housatonic using a spar torpedo, a primitive form of torpedo that was, in essence, a bomb on the end of a stick encased in a motor boat.
9YawG TIL about Thors Hero Shrew. A shrew with interlocking vertebrae that can withstand the weight of a fully grown man.
GjxJ TIL in 1987, an Alaska Airlines 737 collided with a fish in midair. Today, the company flies a plane affectionately named the Salmon-Thirty-Salmon