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TIL that in the 1950s and 60s, women in Afghanistan studied to be doctors - Once Upon a Time in Afghanistan… | Foreign Policy

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BrngK TIL that the largest handwritten family tree is in India and can date back upto 900 years old.
4kr1b TIL a priest who opposed communism lived in a US embassy for 15 years straight, never leaving once, because it was the only place he was protected from the Red Army.
R5a77 TIL of the WWII Kaimingjie Germ Weapon Attack, a Japanese biological warfare germ strike attack on Chinese cities using fleas infected with cholera and the bubonic plague
rRwNw TIL Ben Carpenter was pushed at 50 mph for 6 km in a wheelchair by a semi-truck
LkdV9 TIL about a group of 8 people who mistakenly snorted pure LSD crystals which they thought was cocaine, resulting in what is probably the largest LSD overdose ever and 5 of the 8 going into a state of coma. (Article continues on the next pages)