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TIL that there is a Village in Japan whose population decreased from 300 to mere 27 due to depopulation and the locals started using scare-crows to substitute the people who had left or died. These scare-crows are placed everywhere (at bus stops, schools etc.). Today this village has 400 scare-crows

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