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TIL of Fukushi Masaichi, collector of tattoos taken from the dead. He had acquired these skins by working in a charity hospital, and by offering people money "to finish their tattoos on the condition he could harvest the tattoo when they died."

groj7 TIL That Roland Freisler, the German judge who presided over the trials of many of the July 20 plotters, died in the very courtroom the trials were conducted during an Allied bombing raid just a few months before the end of WWII.
LknMV TIL that in 1977, the FBI started to build a tunnel under the Soviet Embassy in Washington D.C to eavesdrop on the Soviets; the construction took years, was riddled with complications, and worse yet - the Soviets knew about the tunnel because of a tip-off
D1B5P TIL: A person with disconnected brain hemispheres can develop 2 separate "consciousnesses" which can disagree with each other and physically impede the other hemisphere's actions.
VBlwB TIL that according to a survey, 64.6% of women knew they wanted to go out with the last guy they went on a date with within the first 10 minutes of meeting him. This implies that waiting for the right moment to ask a girl out is not a good idea.
QNQGX TIL Adam Sandler's acting teacher took him to a bar, bought him a beer, and advised him to quit acting. Years later, as Sandler became a famous actor, he encountered his teacher at a bar. instead of boasting, he introduced him to his friends saying, "This is the only teacher to ever buy me a beer"