I still can't wrap my head around the fact that Tommy 'Karate' Pitera, the mafia boss who was also a karate champion and took people out with his skills, was a real person.

A screenshot of a social media thread where users discuss Tommy 'Karate' Pitera, a real-life Brooklyn gangster who was also a karate champion and allegedly killed people with his bare hands. The conversation includes comments about his real-life story, his martial arts scholarship to Tokyo, and his arrest in 1990. One user jokes that he was 'legitimately just that good at Karate' and another clarifies he studied Togakure-Ryu Ninjutsu. The final comment reads 'There are protagonists everywhere for those with the eyes to see.'

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