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TIL that Brazil has the largest Japanese community outside of Japan

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XE0nk TIL Amar Bharati has been constantly holding his arm up to honor the Hindu deity Shiva since 1973. The reason for that is that Mr. Bharati is a Sadhu, a part of a religious group that advocates very hard challenges as acts of devotion to the god Shiva.
X0MZR TIL That before semiconductor diodes and such were invented, mercury arc valves were used
wLn97 TIL the father of Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes was a Vice President at Enron
p8g1e TIL in 1998, a minister who was using a .357-caliber Magnum to compare sin to Russian roulette died five days after shooting himself in the head with a blank round and shattering his skull in front of several hundred parishioners, including his family.
xVXX7 TIL that in the 1930's a flute player released his pet lyrebird into the wild, which was able to mimic certain phrases of the man's music. The bird has shared the music with other lyrebirds and the same melodies are still sung by these birds today.