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TIL a teen injected himself with mercury at least three times in an attempt to convert his bones to metal after seeing X-Men Origins: Wolverine. He also had intentional multiple spider bites in the past after wanting to become Spider-Man.

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jNvxM TIL that WW2 featured the Deadliest Siege in History(Leningrad), the Deadliest Battle in History(Stalingrad), and the Deadliest Bombing in History(Tokyo), all in the same war.
R7rel TIL that IBM, an American company, supplied Nazi Germany throughout all of WWII with the computers that they needed to crunch the massive amounts of census data required to carry out the Holocaust
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