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TIL North Korea lured women from around the world for a "job in Japan" - only to marry them off to American defectors in North Korea. After one was released, she returned back to North Korea because she was shamed for being pregnant back home

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1a1G8 TIL the anime clips in Malcom in the middle were from an anime called "Jikku Tenshou Nazca"
9GOB TIL the Japanese military ran human experiments in China, including organ removal, blood loss, being burnt alive, forced pregnancy followed by vivisection, all without anesthesia. The US gave immunity to those involved in exchange for the data. Many doctors had successful postwar careers. [NSFW]
a5DL TIL that a Harvard Business School research found that sarcasm is the “highest form of intelligence,” as “interpretation and construction of sarcasm lead to greater creativity because they activate abstract thinking.”
1aaY7 TIL that a Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-II successfully took four pictures of the death camp in action that were smuggled out of the camp by the Polish resistance in a toothpaste tube #1-2 cremation of corpses in a fire pit from the chamber #3 naked women before they enter the chamber #4 miss-aimed
xy01 TIL that when the Emperor told his people that Japan was surrendering in WWII, almost no one understood his Classical Japanese dialect!