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TIL that there are growing anti-Korean racist movements in Japan as a result of government’s nationalistic movements

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RpKl TIL the “slow puncture”, a form of punishment in South African prisons among inmates, consisting in the rape by a person with AIDS.
VBX1D TIL in a cave near Nazareth, archeologists found a skeleton of a 13 year old boy with with deer horns that had been placed on his chest. The cave was dated to be around 92,000 years old.
wLnOM TIL Japanese urban legend of Aka Manto, an evil spirit which appears in public restrooms and asks people to choose between red or blue toilet paper after which they kill you depending on your choice. Lacerations for red and strangulation for blue.
kJlxe TIL in the past decade, total US college enrollment has dropped by nearly 1.5 million students, or by about 7.4%.
EgPDX TIL Benjamin Franklin had proposed a phonetic alphabet for spelling reform of the English language. He wanted to omit the letters c, j, q, w, x, and y, as he had found them redundant.