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TIL that in China there are numerous cases of adult women discovering needles had been pushed into their brain and other parts of their body in a failed attempt to kill them due to the one child policy.

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LkEPr TIL: A guy tired of people getting injured in potholes around city took to artistic vigilantism to get them repaired by drawing penis around them.
7r5jP TIL Klavdiya Kalugina was one of the youngest Russian snipers who fought during WW2, she was 17. She amassed 257 confirmed kills. She survived the war and lives in Russia, she is 95 years old. She remains one of the deadliest snipers ever.
AD7Ma TIL about Resignation Syndrome, an illness where children who have experienced great trauma and uncertainty slip into a coma-like state for months or years at a time.
Mr8A TIL that the 1977 University of Evansville Men’s Basketball Team was killed in a plane crash. One player didn’t make the trip due to an illness. He was killed in a car wreck 2 weeks later.
Pk4n TIL that despite dying in 1976, billionaire Howard Hughes (THE AVIATOR) had no living will and his estate was not fully dispersed until 2010, 34 years later