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mL4M TIL that Tokyo has a massive underground water storage area to deal with typhoons and flooding
bnN4 TIL that in the 60s, the US military secretly sprayed (possibly radioactive) experimental chemicals, like zinc cadmium, on thousands of residents of poor neighborhoods in St. Louis, without their knowledge or consent, to see what would happen
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