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TIL that Pat Morita, Mr. Miyagi, started out as a stand up comic and considered Redd Foxx his mentor

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xV6xo TIL the caduceus symbol mistakenly used by many American medical companies is actually associated with thievery and commerce, the true medical symbol is the similar looking Rod of Asclepius.
5JMD TIL Russia trained and deployed about 40,000 anti tank dogs in WW2. The dogs were loaded up with explosives and trained to run under tanks where they would be detonated. Many dogs got scared, returned to their own trenches, and killed their Russian trainers.
GvB7 TIL that in 2011, a Spanish priest challenged the Church to measure his Anus after a photo surfaced of him topless in a warm embrace with a man, He denied claims of homosexuality by saying “Let them measure my anus and see if it is dilated.”
awGxN TIL In the midst of the French Revolution in the 1790s, the French government adopted French Revolutionary Time, which divided the day into 10 hours, with 100 minutes in an hour and 100 seconds in a minute; it lasted all but 17 months.
xVQw5 TIL that Jeff Bezos earns over 2400 USD per second meaning it would barely worth his while to stop and pick up a hundred dollar note.