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TIL that a Japanese magazine illegally released the names of juveniles tried and convicted for the rape, torture, and murder of a 16 year old girl, saying that “human rights aren’t needed for brutes.”

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rRlVd TIL that plants don't die from cancer because plant cells can recreate any cell type the plant needs (unlike animal cells) so they replace dead cells & tissues easily. Also mutated plant cells are usually not able to spread to other parts of a plant due to rigid interconnecting cell walls
j6NkM TIL that the Host of the famous tv show America’s Most Wanted, John Walsh, became an advocate for missing children after his 6 year old son was abducted and brutally murdered in 1981
XAWP TIL during WWII, the first Conscientious Objector to win the Medal of Honor was a man named Desmond Doss. He refused to carry a weapon into battle, instead earning the medal for saving dozens of men under direct fire, even after being badly wounded himself.
VMKB8 TIL On a US Navy submarine using the "emergency blow activator, or 'chicken switch,'" is "a last resort in emergency situations." "Throwing the switch immediately blasts large volumes of compressed air into all of a submarine's ballast tanks, bringing the boat to the surface as quickly as possible."
GAWxN TIL that in 1969, when the Football War broke out between El Salvador and Honduras, the Salvadoran Salomon Vides fled to the jungle and survived alone 32 years until he was found and reunited with his family in 2001... and learned that the war only lasted 100 hours.