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TIL that when Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) announced Japan’s surrender on the radio (Aug. 15, 1945), it was the first time his voice was heard by the Japanese people

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5VO69 TIL The Machame route is the most popular route on Mount Kilimanjaro and doable even for first time backpackers with little to no altitude experience over 6, 7 days
G4w4 TIL Tom Hardy (Bane) said that the most difficult parts of the The Dark Knight Rises to shoot were the fight scenes. Not because of the physicality of them, but because he was such a huge Batman fan growing up that he said “it felt like I was beating up my childhood hero.”
jNVEX TIL that Leonardo DiCaprio is named after the artist Leonardo da Vinci, as his pregnant mother was standing in front of a da Vinci painting the first time she felt him kick.
0XM5 TIL Winston Churchill and Mahatma Gandhi were enemies. Churchill favored letting Gandhi die if he went on a hunger strike, and during the Bengal famine of 1943 responded to urgent requests to divert food supplies to India with a telegram asking, if food was so scarce, “why Gandhi hadn’t died yet”.
djZj TIL a Hungarian man was shot in the frontal lobe during World War 1, making it impossible for him to fall asleep. He continued to live a full, sleepless life