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TIL 5.3% (over 3 million) annual deaths are due to alcohol and drug use

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VMJap TIL In 1943, the British took a civilian's corpse, filled his lungs with water, dressed him in a military uniform, gave him fake intelligence letters, and dropped him off the coast of Spain -- all in an elaborate ruse to draw the Germans away from Sicily. It worked.
9X86 TIL: Personal incomes in the US have fallen 10-15% for working age men since the year 2000.
6EPEZ TIL in South Africa and India, biting ants were used as surgical sutures by getting the ants to bite on both sides of the wound, then breaking off the body.
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