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TIL that Rowan Atkinson suffers from stammering.

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6Bbm TIL that Theodore Roosevelt, in order to prevent war with Japan after post Russo War negotiation fallouts, showcased the American Navy around the world as a display of America’s firepower. Upon its arrival Japanese schoolchildren waved American flags
0w4Bj TIL Ewan McGregor, who famously played Obi-Wan Kenobi, has a brother - Colin McGregor who is a British RAF pilot and his call-sign is "Obi Two".
b9VM9 TIL according to Buddhism, at the core of all human beings and living creatures, there is no "eternal, essential and absolute something called a soul, self or atman". Nirvana, or liberation, is defined as the blissful state when a person realizes that he or she has "no self, no soul".