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TIL European food used to be spicy like Indian food

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BR1W TIL that in 1921, a man in Detroit went so far as to actually kill himself, apparently in order to then communicate with a chosen spiritualist medium, thus proving that the afterlife was real. It didn’t work.
NYYJ TIL 17% of all homicide victims in Japan are children murdered by their suicidal parents
6EVYW TIL The Florida panhandle once accounted for 2/3 of lost limb claims in the U.S. due the common practice of taking out multiple insurance policies and then maiming oneself
jLxa TIL Scientists have actually succeeded in turning lead into gold, through Nuclear Transmutation.
0wRKj TIL during WWII Soviet scientists defended the world’s largest seed vault through a 900-day siege. Many of the scientists starved amid the crops and fruit, refusing to jeopardize ‘the future of Russia’ to save themselves.