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Is the fish's deadly rep justified?
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TIL of Yang Kyoungjon, a Korean soldier who fought in the Imperial Japanese Army, captured and forced into the Soviet Red Army, and later recaptured and forced into the German Wehrmacht during World War II, eventually being captured and freed by paratroopers of the US army in 1944.
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TIL The notion of an "objective" media was a commercial product that only evolved in the late 1800s as newspapers shifted from partisan to nonpartisan in order to attract larger audiences from both parties and to sell these readers’ attention to advertisers.
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TIL Richard Nixon was offered a scholarship to Harvard , but wasn’t able to attend because his family lacked the money for him to travel there and to sustain his Room & Board .
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TIL that the planning documents for the lower Thames crossing (a proposed road crossing in England) are 359,866 pages long across 2,383 documents, and laid end to end would stretch 66 miles -- 5 times longer than the proposed road itself
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TIL that in 1997 an Economist at the Mercatus Center Argued that the EPA "not taken into account that smog-free skies would result in more cases of skin cancer"