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TIL, how not to piss off an angry japanese slenderman

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jNDMv TIL The girl from “The Ring” was inspired by a true story/legend. A young girl, Okiku, was a Samurai’s servant who refused his advances. After being thrown down a well by the spurned Samurai, she reportedly haunted him by crawling out of the well to visit him every night.
ZpxDY TIL out of 465 documented cases of medical self-experimentation, 8 cases resulted in the self-experimenter’s death. 7 resulted in their winning a Nobel Prize. Another 5 won a Nobel for unrelated work.
wbdE TIL Baby elephants suck their trunks for comfort just like human babies suck their thumb
KOxpa TIL that in 1963, inspired by Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolence, organizers led a successful Bristol Bus Boycott to end the state-owned Bristol Omnibus Company's then-legal policy of hiring only whites.
nZJW TIL when a Pacific tribe watched the US military perform drills to prepare for supply planes, the tribe believed it to be a religious ritual and built their own runways, coconut headphones, wooden radio towers, and marched around like the soldiers, in hopes of having a plane drop supplies off.