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TIL: Penn Badgley, star of Gossip Girl and You, voice acted in two Mario games for the Nintendo 64 (Mario Golf and Mario Tennis)

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l7Gg7 TIL In 1976, the CAF in Texas sponsored an air show where a B-29 bomber piloted by Paul Tibbets, the pilot who flew the B-29 which bombed Hiroshima during World War II, reenacted the atomic bombing of Hiroshima (including a mock mushroom cloud)
BgQ6D TIL Qatar owns 17% of Volkswagen
ZJE4 TIL that a mongrel Lampo hitch-hiked trains and was taking longer and longer train trips from which he always returned.
wonXJ TIL after a failed coup attempt in Japan, Masakatsu Morita acted as a second for the leader's seppuku. After 3 failed attempts to behead him, another man performed the deed. Morita then attempted seppuku himself, but stabbed himself too shallow to be fatal, and had to request his own beheading.
8PpV TIL the Earth was established as a sphere since about 300 BC