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ANpno TIL: that Hisayuki Machii, the founder of one of Japan's most notorious Yakuza gangs, was Korean.
8KEa TIL that “Quinnine” (the stuff in tonic water) has been used to treat Malaria all the way back to 1631 in Rome and also played a key role in colonizing West Africa
1xa4 TIL that JK Rowling told Warner Bros. that Harry Potter had to be filmed in Britain with an all-british cast
YpxAZ TIL In 1964 Hildegarde Trabant became the fifthtieth person (and one of eight women) to be killed at the Berlin Wall. A member of the Communist Party and married to a member of the police force, she was reportedly fleeing an abusive marriage when she was killed at the age of 37.