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TIL of Wendigo psychosis - a folklore ailment where a person develops an insatiable hunger for human flesh

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8w7a TIL The Japanese government pays compensations for Japanese A-bomb survivors but ignores to compensate for Korean slave workers who also survived the bomb
rRlZy TIL About Ama, female Japanese pearl divers that start diving at the age of 12-13, and are well active into their 70s. They endure freezing conditions and great pressure from deep sea depths to get pearls. They have a unique technique in which they release air in a long whistle as they resurface.
5ke8 TIL the English town of Easington has the highest percentage of white residents in England and also the UK’s lowest population of Jedi Knights.
l77jr TIL that about one in 2,000 people in the UK is a carrier of variant CJD, or "mad cow" disease, linked to eating contaminated beef. Relatively few people who catch the infectious agent develop symptoms and it's unknown if they can transmit it to others.
JYaBk TIL Half of Earth's oxygen comes from the ocean and not from trees, mainly from phytoplankton.