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TIL about a teacher called Osamu Mizutani who for 14 years patrolled the streets at night trying to persuade Japanese youth hanging around the streets to return to regular life while also responding to calls and emails.

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oRe4r TIL most uncontacted groups choose to live in isolation, even though they know about the outside world. This is probably because they fear catching diseases they have never encountered before and getting harmed by traffickers and loggers.
BKgy TIL of the Wereth 11, a group of eleven black soldiers separated from their battalion during the first few days of the Battle of the Bulge. Even though the eleven men surrendered to the Germans, they were taken to a nearby field where they were tortured and then murdered.
QJW5e TIL in 1974 Egypt issued a passport to Pharaoh Ramses II. He died more than 3,000 years ago, but his mummified body needed a passport to fly to Paris for some repairs. On that special Egyptian passport, the pharaoh’s occupation was listed as "King (deceased)."
awwjL TIL there are individuals actively advocating against cochlear implant surgery. They consider the possibility of curing deafness a form of "ethnic" genocide as such an event would lead to the destruction of a unique population of people with a linguistic culture onto themselves.
E1VKW TIL I learned about a Portland nurse who strangled a hit-man that her estranged husband sent. After she was hit in the face with a hammer, while she strangled him, she yelled “Tell me who sent you and I will call a fucking ambulance!”