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TIL that the largest Yakuza family had a tradition of handing out Halloween candy to trick or treaters

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d8WK TIL that when banana slugs mate, sometimes they get stuck, so, to separate, they take turns gnawing off the penis.
epMXb TIL Mike Myers originally gave Shrek a Canadian accent but found it too scary. Wanting Shrek to sound more vulnerable, he switched to a Scottish accent. This change required re-animating the film, costing over $4 million, or 10% of the entire budget.
166Pd TIL about Cyclones Katrina and Victor-Cindy, a cyclone (hurricane for the Americans) in the Southern Hemisphere that maintained its circulation for over fifty days, crossed over three basins (South Pacific -> Australian Region -> Southwest Indian Ocean), and used three names.
4XaWo TIL Leonardo Da Vinci, a pacifist, invented an armored tank nearly 500 years ahead of its time, but included a fatal flaw in the design (the wheels only spun toward each other) so it could never be used in an actual battle.
OoGA7 TIL Alexander Litvinenko, before his death as a result of mysterious poisoning, had accused the Russian government of perpetrating a false flag terror attack against Russian civilians, in order to justify an invasion of Chechnya.