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TIL Bed bugs were all but eradicated in the developed world in the 1950s but had a resurgence in the 1990s due to factors including increased international travel, lack of public awareness

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6E8xW TIL Count Juan Raphael Dante, a director of the US Karate Association until 1962, didn't like the focus on ceremony, tradition, and protocol, over "effectiveness", so he created the "Dance of Death" system, taught in a mail-order booklet, World's Deadliest Fighting Secrets, advertised in comic books
Z8ayY TIL in 1898 a group of Indian railroad workers were stalked by a pair of man-eating lions that killed at least 35 of the labourers and stopped constuction before being shot to death.
10Gr TIL Norway had a nationwide butter crisis where a package of butter cost 50$
7mkL TIL in 2007 a German pensioner was given a prison term of five months for, amongst other things, training his dog ‘Adolf’ to raise his right paw in a Nazi salute every time the command “Heil Hitler!” was uttered
yeRv TIL that in Vietnam, it is possible to order a cobra blood wine from restaurant menus - the waiter will take a live cobra, kill it on the spot, drain the blood into a shot glass of rice wine, and top it off with the cobra’s still beating heart for you to gulp down.