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TIL Japanese Mass Suicides in WW2

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wZ61 TIL there has been more human casualties in the Mexican Narcotics wars than in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.
9YEEp TIL due to a case of real world bullying for a Runescape in-game item, the Dutch legal system has since then considered non-physical theft as being a regular form of "theft" and is judged as such by the law
pXk4 TIL of malariotherapy. The treatment consisted of injecting patients who had developed psychosis as a result of late-stage syphilis with blood from soldiers with malaria. It actually worked and won the Nobel Prize in 1927.
XEej8 TIL although iodine was added to table salt in the U.S. beginning in 1924 as an antidote to goiters caused by iodine deficiency, it had the unanticipated side effect of raising the national IQ by an average of 3.5 points.
grdM7 TIL That Keisuke Itagaki, the mangaka behind Baki the Grappler, is the father of Paru Itagaki, the mangaka behind Beastars