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TIL Fritz Haber invented a process of ammonia synthesis both to save the world from starvation and to serve the German war machine. He never saw the creation of Zyklon B from his process and its use by the Nazis to kill his relatives in the gas chambers. His wife committed committed suicide.
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TIL water bears are eight legged microanimals, among the most resilient animals known, able to survive extreme conditions — such as exposure to extreme temperatures, extreme pressures, air deprivation, radiation, dehydration, and starvation — that would quickly kill most other known forms of life.
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TIL about Sokushinbutsu, a practice of self-mummification observed by Japanese Buddhist monks. The monks would follow a strict starvation diet until abstaining from eating altogether in order to lose as much body fat and moisture as possible. They would finally be locked in a tomb while still alive.
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TIL of the Goa Inquisition in Portuguese India which enforced Catholic Orthodoxy from 1561 to 1812. Primary targets were Hindus who were forced to convert under imprisonment and starvation. All records were destroyed by the Portuguese in 1812 and exact number of casualties still remain unknown today
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TIL where astronauts sleep on a space station has to be extremely well ventilated with a constant flow of air over them. Warm air does not rise in space so astronauts in badly-ventilated sections end up surrounded by a bubble of their own exhaled carbon dioxide, the result being oxygen starvation.
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