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TIL of “Yasuke” the first recorded foreign born samurai in Japan from the 16th century. He was a black man from Mozambique and would have been extremely tall at the time. It was reported he had the strength of 10 men.

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X00WP TIL after General Dwight D. Eisenhower found victims of Nazi concentration camps, he anticipated that in the future there would be attempts to deny what happened. He ordered all possible pictures taken, and had Germans from surrounding villages to be ushered through the camps and bury the dead.
G8PQ TIL while wrestler Hulk Hogan was traveling with tag team duo, the Wild Samoans, whose gimmick was to never speak in public, police found an unregistered handgun in Hogan’s car. Hogan begged the Samoans to come to his defense. The Samoans refused to break character and all three men went to jail.
Vk5k TIL that a Thai woman accidentally slipped on “farmyard mud,” grabbed a naked live wire and got electrocuted to death. After the funeral, her sister was showing her neighbors how the accident happened when she herself slipped, grabbed the same live wire and also got electrocuted to death.
kZdE TIL that Jim Woodman theorized that the Nazca lines were built via an ancient form of flight. TO prove this he constructed a hot air balloon only using resources that were available to the ancient Nazca people.
4kyaa TIL of hyperforeignism, which is when people mispronounce foreign words that are actually simpler than they assume. Examples include habanero, coup de grâce, and Beijing.