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TIL about “jouhatsu”, the people who pay companies specialized in making people disappear

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WkDLY TIL about an emotion liget(native to a tribe in Philippines), it doesn't have an exact translation in English, Renato Rosaldo(who went to live with that tribe along with his wife for some time in 1967) couldn't descibe it to westerners at first but then he felt it when his wife died.
69v98 TIL that Kalmykia, a republic in Russia, is the only region in Europe where Buddhism is the predominant religion
RXBa TIL 20,000 year-old fossilized human footprints were discovered in Australia which indicate the man who made them was running at the speed of a modern Olympic sprinter, barefoot, in sand.
epB95 TIL of the Salerno Mutiny, in which 191 British soldiers refused to participate in the invasion of Italy at Salerno after believing they were returning to the U.K. Three men were initially sentenced to death while the rest were sentenced to prison. These sentences were eventually suspended.
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