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TIL: That because Japan’s fertility rate is so low, back in 2008, Japanese workers were told to take off work early to go home and procreate

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b9m9Q TIL In 1975, the mummified body of a bank robber was found in an amusement park by a TV crew. It’d been mistaken for a wax mannequin, and was only found out after a man moved it and its arm fell off, exposing human bone. It was identified as the body of Elmer McCurdy, who had died in 1911.