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TIL Isoroku Yamamoto, who planned the attack on Pearl Harbour, once studied at Harvard University in the United States and was appointed naval attaché to the Japanese embassy in Washington.

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JDPQ TIL a mentally ill man shot himself in the head as a suicide attempt. The bullet cured his disorder and he became a straight-A college student.
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