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TIL that when Hideki Tojo was given new dentures, the message ‘Remember Pearl Harbor’ had been secretly drilled into them

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ANmro TIL Each winner of the Masters golf tournament gets one green jacket, and for each subsequent victory, he gets the same jacket.
PYZEn TIL that in order to appease Persia for killing their ambassadors, Sparta sent two young noblemen volunteers, Bulis and Sperthias, to offer themselves to be executed in atonement. Xerxes sent the men back, saying that he would not sink to Sparta's level and did not consider Sparta's guilt loosened.
VBVNm TIL that Congressman Vito Marcantonio, known for his socialist beliefs, was so popular in his Harlem district that he ran and won in both the Democratic and Republican primaries simultaneously
68GW TIL that upon his death, pirate Olivier Levasseur had tossed a cryptogram into a crowd and told them if they could figure out the message, his treasure (now valued at $200,000,000) would be theirs, a treasure that to this day has never been found.
jNlDn TIL That the drought of 1976-77 aligned harmoniously with the rise of skateboarding. In effort to conserve water, pools were being emptied all throughout Southern California. With that, emerging skaters like Tony Alva, Steve Olson, and the late Jay Adams were jumping fences and skating empty pools.