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TIL Actor Jason Statham competed in Diving for Great Britain at the 1990 Commonweath Games in Auckland

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PgMO TILed that there is a permanent underwater laboratory called Aquarius that is owned by NOAA but used by NASA to study how people handle extreme living conditions. Residents are referred to as “aquanauts”.
BggeL TIL the Yakuza protected Koreans after they were targeted by Japanese police and lynch mobs in the 1923 Kanto Massacre
R71oj TIL that people go to restaurants to eat diseases for fun.
N7oYJ TIL that Joseph-Ignace Guillotin did not invent the guillotine. He opposed executions and when he was unable to have them abolished, he suggested "decapitation by means of a simple mechanism." as the most humane method. When the device was finally invented, it was given his name.
djjK TIL Jackie Chan’s movie, ‘Dragon Lord’ (1982), set a World Record for most takes for a single scene totaling 2,900 total before Jackie Chan got it right to perfection in his eyes