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TIL Samurai usually wrote poems before ritual suicide.

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Y71gZ TIL The 1955 Le Mans disaster was a major crash that occurred on 11 June 1955 during the 24 Hours of Le Mans motor race at Circuit de la Sarthe in Le Mans, Sarthe, France. Large pieces of debris flew into the crowd, killing 83 spectators and French driver Pierre Levegh, and injuring around 120 more.
epyd6 TIL about the Olympus Scandal centering around Japanese camera maker Olympus hiding massive investment losses totaling $1.7 billion through an elaborate accounting fraud that lasted for at least 13 years before being exposed in 2011
NvYE TIL that Turk Edwards, an NFL player on the Washington Redskins, suffered a career ending injury during a coin toss.
X0JjX TIL Nintendo characters Mario, Kirby, and Zelda were all named after real people.
Y7B8P TIL that humans naturally find mixed-race, tan-colored people to be more attractive than both pale-skinned and dark-skinned people.