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TIL that Japan addresses don’t have street names. Addresses are from largest to smallest units = Prefecture(city) - ward - district - block - building number.

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WkYV9 TIL Naloxone (Narcon) has became a mainstay of hospital emergency rooms and medical wards. It can be injected or sprayed up the nose, and can stop/reverse a heroin overdose in under two minutes. It’s so vital the World Health Organization placed the drug on its list of essential medications in 1983.
aP0 TIL during the battle scenes in Braveheart, the extras who were members of the F.C.A., the Irish version of the territorial army, members of different companies took the chance to beat each other up during the filming which explains the realistic fighting
wayJ TIL An American researcher on Chinese history was able to uncover sensitive information on the Cultural Revolution through “garbology” or by digging through archival materials at flea markets and vendors because access to the official archives is strictly controlled by the Chinese government
yQ5Bl TIL: During the Russian famine of the 1920s, Government officials advised starving residents to dig up the dried bones of animals, grind them into flour and bake a “bread substitute [that has] a nutritive value of 25 percent more than rye bread, in spite of its unpleasant smell and taste”.
YpWPZ Til about the unofficial saint of handguns, St Gabriel Possenti who save a town from RedShirts by shooting a lizard on the road