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TIL: In 2019, Vice discovered that a growing number of Chinese women were turning to paid virtual boyfriends. The interactions mainly consist of them being hired to sing them to sleep, send them compliments, and chat with them via text or call.

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W7kRB TIL of the Guangxi Massacre, an event during the Cultural Revolution with reports of “mass cannibalism.” Revolutionaries ate hundreds of Chinese citizens, not because of famine or economic reasons, but out of political hatred and rituals. Many of these cannibals (1966 - 1976) are still alive today.
JYL8m TIL of the Kaningara tribe of Papua New Guinea, who used to use bamboo knives to cut the flesh of boys and young men, to fill them with the power of the crocodile spirit.
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