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TIL to get Japanese citizenship before 1945, Koreans had to submit information about ten generations of their family and ancestors (at least 2000 people)

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Ae8x TIL that 60-70% of all the deforestation in the Amazon is due to clearing land for cattle ranching
4y8w TIL there is a medical phenomenon called Lazarus syndrome, which is the spontaneous return of circulation after failed attempts at CPR. Some patients are known to make a full recovery.
xAPD TIL that mercury in vaccines is not only not harmful, but is in fact there to make the vaccine safer by preventing the growth of bacteria or fungi that could possibly contaminate the vaccine.
JVgm TIL Lance Armstrong, at the height of his doping behaviour in the 2000s, made a $100k donation to the international cycling federation to ‘fund the fight against doping’
vwk7 TIL Anders Breivik, the Norwegian mass murder who killed 77 people in 2011, threatened to go on a hunger strike in prison last year if the government did not upgrade his PS2 to a PS3.