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TIL when asked about the attack on pearl harbour in 1941 Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamatoto said “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve”

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dDxG7 TIL about the stylitism, a trend among early Christian monks who practiced asceticism by living atop a pillar. One stylite stayed atop his pillar for 54 years without ever coming down
Ypd0P TIL that before Rob Wietoff was casted as John Marston in Red Dead Redemption. Rockstar wanted to get Clint Eastwood or Robert Redford for the role but they all turned it down
Om8L TIL of Anti-Monopoly, a game designed to show how hurtful monopolies can be to a free-enterprise system. The board starts off looking like a game of Monopoly had just been completed, and the aim is to return the board to the free market system.
yQ7yV TIL in the original story of Peter Pan, the Lost Boys do age, even in Neverland. The reason the group is always made up of children is because if they don't die by other means (which is common), Peter "thins them out." The author never clarifies whether this means they're executed or banished.
Y7xxP TIL the worst serial killer--Luis Garavito--had 193 confirmed victims. He died of eye cancer in October.