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TIL Masanobu Tsuji, a Japanese parliament member and former World War II war criminal vanished without a trace in Laos in 1961. Despite his disappearance he held his seat until 1965 when his term ended.

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BQKD TIL that Andrew Wakefield’s study on vaccines causing Autism was debunked in 1999, and the paper he wrote on the subject was retracted in 2010!
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