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TIL Canada sterilized indigenous school girls till the mid 1990s

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16anO TIL towards the end of WWII, Japan developed suicide motorboats called Shinyo, which were piloted by 15~17 year olds.
6EJ1J TIL You are 10 times more likely to get bitten by a New Yorker than a shark.
ePdD TIL studies indicate that 90% of doctors admit they would reject resuscitation by CPR if they had a choice, compared to 25% of the average public. This is attributed to research showing only 8% of CPR cases actually survive more than 1 month, nearly half of those in a vegetative state.
x7b7 TIL That Arnold Schwarzenegger has killed 509 people on screen throughout his entire career as an actor- and the “White Death”, Simo Häyhä, the sniper with the most confirmed kills in any major war, has killed only FOUR FEWER real people.
KYAPJ TIL that Edith Piaf was named after Edith Cavell, a British nurse in WW1 Belgium, who saved the lives of soldiers on both sides and helped 200 Allied men escape German-occupied Belgium before being shot by the Germans for treason, and who is now included in the Church of England Calendar of Saints.