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TIL that the man from the “Technoviking” video sued the creator for violating his ‘personality rights’ 13 years later, taking all his earnings from the video/merchandise and sending him into debt. The creator had to crowdfund for a documentary about the video to get out of debt.

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R7164 TIL that Japan's Air Force dropped massive amounts of ceramic bombs filled with bubonic plague-infested fleas in Ningbo, China during WW2
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