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TIL that Kamikaze suicide attacks of WWII were not limited to aircraft. There were also submarines (Kairyu), human piloted torpedoes (Kaiten), speedboats (Shinyo), and underwater divers (Fukuryu).

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7Rpp TIL that Busta Rhymes was the voice actor for Reptar in the Rugrats Movie.
QJDm9 TIL of Christopher Langan, the "smartest man in the world" who broke the ceiling of the IQ scale when tested. He worked as a bouncer in Long Island for 20 years while developing his Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe about the relationship of reality and the mind
KpJa TIL London only reached its pre-WW2 population level in January, 2015.
yQ4bv TIL about an experiment that mapped 1 cubic millimeter (about the size of a grain of sand) of mouse brain by slicing it into 25000 pieces and scanning them for 3 months. The completed data set had a size of almost 2 million gigabytes.
Oy7a TIL CPR only has an 8% effectiveness. However, many believe it is much more effective because on TV it has a 75% effectiveness and 67& of the characters who had been given CPR lived to leave the hospital.