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TIL that Canada has no national rule on sewage treatment, and dumps a staggering amount of human excrement, toxins and pharmaceuticals directly into rivers and the ocean

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R6n8 TIL a Mossad hit squad once carried out an assassination clad only in briefs. They did this to keep their clothes free of blood. The target was Herberts Cukurs, AKA “The Butcher of Riga”, a Latvian Nazi. In Brazil, he was lured to a house by an undercover Mossad agent, then killed by the hit squad.
wLDQJ TIL of Felis nigripes: the African Black-footed Cat, aka "the deadliest cat on earth", weighing in at under 5 lbs. It kills 10 - 14 rodents or birds per night to satisfy its accelerated metabolism. The Black-footed Cat has a kill rate of 60%, whereas a lion's kill rate is about 25%.
jN9WX TIL The "Placebo Effect" doesn’t have clinical/medical significance outside of clinical trials, and Placebo's should never be used as a treatment. Placebos do about as good as “no treatment arms” in most studies with objective criteria.
J1dd1 TIL: Crypto AG, a Swiss company specializing in encryption, was secretly owned and manipulated by CIA and BND, compromising global communications for decades
Me4pV TIL about Tthongsul. It's a Korean rice wine made out of fermented feces.