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TIL autistic people often are victims of exploitation/abuse by so called friends

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WknX TIL in 1970 a disgruntled postgraduate student deliberately infected his roommates with Ascaris suum, a parasitic nematode. This was the first documented human infection by this species.
gMmg9 TIL Korean college students once protested against the amount of air in potato chip packets by building a raft out of them and sailing across a river.
v15y4 TIL Charlie Chaplin was one of the planned assassination targets during a May 15, 1932 coup attempt by Japanese naval officers. While the prime minister was killed at home, Chaplin survived as he was at a sumo event with the prime minister's son.
Lkjev TIL David J. Peterson Invented 'Dothraki' & 'Valyrian' Languages in Game of Thrones including Grammar & Phonology, 300pg. Dictionary with Over 1.2M Learners to Date
Y5Gr TIL that a woman once tried to smuggle suitcases made out of 15 kilos of cocaine into Spain.