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TIL the Prime Minister of Hungary during WW2 killed himself rather than be complicit when his country was forced into the Axis

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9YKZX TIL that for a 2014 study, psychologists hung out in public bathroom stalls and watched under the door to see how long men and women spent washing their hands
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