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TIL of a tiger who terrorized rural villages in Asia and is estimated to have killed 436 people

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Lka6V TIL Despite the common myth that child sex abusers were victims themselves as children, multiple studies have shown that approximately 2/3rds of abusers not poly-graphed reported being victims while only 1/3rd poly-graphed (w/ immunity) reported being victims.
oRyQ8 TIL Sunday Times took its name not because it was related to Times, but to take advantage of its name. Both papers ran separately for more than a century until they were bought by Canadian billionaire.
R5a77 TIL of the WWII Kaimingjie Germ Weapon Attack, a Japanese biological warfare germ strike attack on Chinese cities using fleas infected with cholera and the bubonic plague
nLpd TIL September 12th is a holiday in Russia (Day of Conception) where people have the day off to have sex to make babies, and rewards are given to women who give birth exactly 9 months later.
b6Rw7 TIL - The man who unsuccessfully treated President Garfield after he was shot, Dr. Doctor Willard Bliss (First name Doctor), was expelled from the Washington DC Medical Society for his advocacy of homeopathy and his refusal to support the society's segregation of black doctors.