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TIL Tadamichi Kuribayashi commander of the Japanese on Iwo Jima, from an old samurai family, studied abroad in the U.S. at Harvard and Michigan,was an excellent student, bought a Chevy, learned to drive from an American officer, traveled all over the country, and seemed to really enjoy his time ther

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ZNna TIL the Iron Sheik planned to kill the man who murdered his daughter by slitting his throat with a razor he hid in his mouth in the courtroom court. His family surrounded him and talked him out of it. Instead, as a tribute to his daughter, he quit drugs and got his life back on track.
9m87 TIL that in Mozambique, overhead power lines have to be at least 12m/39ft high to ensure that giraffes can safely pass underneath.
8avyL TIL of Wilhelm Stuckart, responsible for the Nazi regime’s program of euthanasia for “deformed newborns.” Two years after creating the laws, his own son born with Down syndrome became one of their victims.
Bnob TIL that most statues have small penises because it was earlier believed that having a small package meant that the person was more “intellectual and rational.”
xRkB TIL Monopoly was originally meant to teach people about the evils of capitalism.