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TIL Ichiro Suzuki, baseball’s all-time hits leader, learned Spanish just for the purpose of trash talking opponents.

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rRPAy TIL that the term "gaslighting" comes from a 1938 British play called "Gas Light", which follows a woman whose husband slowly manipulates her into believing that she is going insane.
0w5g5 TIL WHINSEC formerly the US Army School of the Americas trains many of South America's dictators, assassins and death squads to this day
KO6K9 TIL Sharon Osbourne introduced Black Sabbath to Ronnie James Dio, the man who would go on to replace her husband Ozzy in the band.
epvNn TIL a California serial killer dubbed the “Tipster Killer” would anonymously call a crime‑tip hotline after each of his murders—providing directions to his victims’ bodies so he could collect the reward.
nWpV9 TIL that in 1979, an unknown man known as the "Toynbee Tiles" artist began placing mysterious tiles embedded in the streets of cities across the U.S. and South America, featuring cryptic messages about resurrecting the dead on Jupiter.