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TIL In Japan, if you commit suicide by jumping in front of a Train, Rail Companies charge your family a fee.

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JYmxB Today I learned about Nicolae Minovici, a Romanian forensic scientist who hung himself 12 times in order to better understand what is happening during the hanging process and to prove others wrong.
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