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YpkZx TIL of “The Shadows from the Walls of Death”—an 86-paged book considered to be one of the deadliest tomes in the world. Each page contains a sample of wallpaper saturated in a lethal amount of arsenic and any contact with bare skin can prove fatal.
xY4k TIL the man who killed President McKinley, often dismissed as a mentally disturbed anarchist, did it in part due to US policies in the Philippines at the time, which though nearly forgotten today, resulted in the deaths of 200k-250k civilians and over 5,000 US troops