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TIL Yoko Ono’s uncle Toshikazu Kase was a high ranking Imperial Japanese civil servant and diplomat that was present at the 1945 surrender ceremony on the USS Missouri and was Japans first ambassador to the UN.

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ANQwl TIL about Helmuth Von Mulkte. He is the only person born from 18th century whose voice was recorded.
E7xW TIL that in 67 AD, Roman Emperor Nero was in such deep mourning over the death of his late wife Poppaea Sabina that he castrated and married a young man who bore an uncanny resemblance to her and even started calling him by his late wife’s name.
k5ZW TIL that A man survived for 40 years without sleeping.
9g07 TIL Thor’s chariot was pulled by two goats Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr that Thor could eat and then resurrect the following day with his hammer if no bones were broken
xVWwB TIL about Garden-Path Sentences such as "The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families." which are grammatically correct but almost always read initially as nonsensical