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This Word Does Not Exist

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The Last Gamble of Tokyo Joe

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People with severe mental illness have been failed by a dysfunctional system

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If we lose the Internet Archive, we’re screwed

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Stanford’s war against its own students

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DNA, AI facial reconstruction, and grit identified Somerton Man 75 years later

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Fighting murder convictions that rest on shoddy stats

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Social Security denies disability benefits based on list with jobs from 1977

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A German experiment that placed foster children with pedophiles (2021)

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Former CIA master of disguise helps disfigured people come out of hiding

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MythBusters Helped a Wrongly Convicted Man Prove His Innocence

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A remarkable kid has died in Newcastle, Utah

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Show HN: Killer Crossword - A crossword puzzle variation with no clues

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Mystery of Somerton man’s identity solved after 73 years, researchers say

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Woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent

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Sir Mo Farah reveals he was trafficked into the UK using another child’s name

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Turkish Magician Built a $600M Nasdaq-Listed Scam Based on Lies

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Ancient civilisation under eastern Turkey estimated to be 11k-13k years old

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Limb lengthening surgery is becoming more popular

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Bizarre Talmudic Scenarios

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California teen with autism who vanished 3 years ago is found alive in Utah

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The Lie That Made Me

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How a middle aged CS major debunked a classic positive psychology finding (2013)

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An eccentric monk’s singular scrap cathedral

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Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, creator of Somethingawful, has died

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Metallurgist admits faking steel test results for US Navy subs

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Should a dog's sniff be enough to convict a person for murder?

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Inventor builds Lego arm for eight-year-old

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New Zealand council ends contract with wizard after 23 years of service

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Investigators say they've finally identified the Zodiac Killer

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Groundbreaking arm amputation surgery makes a ‘phantom’ hand seem real

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'Concerned Citizen'at Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Trial Turns Out to Be Family

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Signs that can reveal a fake photo (2017)

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India's living dead

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Rick and Morty’s Thanksploitation Deciduous Decision Tree

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Jeanne Calment’s 122-year old longevity record may be fake (2018)

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A woman's battle to prove she isn't dead

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Professor who harnessed power of cactuses is a top inventor

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How can you tell if someone is lying?

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Physicist 3D-printed a Lamborghini because his son liked one (2019)

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A prosthetic hand restored my sense of touch

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A Dishonest, Indifferent, and Toxic Culture

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A family with no fingerprints

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The Zodiac Killer's most uncrackable cipher has, at last, been solved

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Contradictions in Roman law left incurable headaches for its judges

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I'm a Coffin Confessor

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Coca-Cola paid scientists to downplay how sweet drinks fueled the obesity crisis

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Israel Systematically Hides Evidence of 1948 Expulsion of Arabs

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A dying teenager who wanted world peace (and love)

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30 Years Ago, Romania Deprived Thousands of Babies of Human Contact

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'Oh no, I spelled it wrong': Nurse runs solo marathon in shape of 'Boston Strog'

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Scottish Power: "Billing chaos caused by a new IT system"

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A Database of Fugitive Slave Ads Reveals Thousands of Untold Stories (2018)

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Whoever built the Boston Marathon bombs is still on the loose (2018)

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Being a good guy boss left me £1.2m in debt

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Dutch family 'waiting for end of time' discovered in basement

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Google Maps shows sunken car where missing man’s body was found

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Investigators who know you’ve faked your death

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Media Can’t Stop Presenting Horrifying Stories as ‘Uplifting’ Perseverance Porn

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‘No One Saw a Thing’: When a Midwest Town Banded Together to Kill the Town Bully

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Kept alive with tubes for nearly 17 years

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RBA not fazed by Australian $50 note typo

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The Euthanasia That Wasn’t

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A new round of antitrust questions can’t go well for Google

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Seattle police use family DNA, latest science to identify killer 52 years later

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Who killed Olof Palme?

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Behind the Yakuza: documenting the women of Japan’s mafia (2018)

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An Amateur Porno Set Off a Federal Witch Hunt

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A girl who was never meant to survive

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Children for Sale, 1948

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How A Young Woman Followed Two Hackers' Lies to Her Death

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The SOS in my Halloween decorations

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All Hail the Condom King

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The Case of Jane Doe Ponytail

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Your DNA Is Out There. Do You Want Law Enforcement Using It?

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Junk Arson Science Sent Claude Garrett to Prison for Murder 25 Years Ago

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Senior House at MIT Dies, and a Crisis Blooms at Colleges (2017)

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A man who was raised by wolves

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14-year-old boy uses legal quirk to run for Vermont governor

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A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List'

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In Memory of Jesse Helms and the Condom on His House (2008)

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An amateur investigator's hunt for the Zodiac killer

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DNA linked to Golden State Killer arrest came from a genealogy website

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A teen who built a prosthetic arm for his dad

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Mosfet the cat 2001 – 2018

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Goodyear Hid Evidence of 'The Worst Tire in History' Linked to at Least 9 Deaths

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I was given new hands for Christmas

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In interviews with rapists, student pursues not-so-simple question: why?

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Unsent text accepted as dead man's will by Australian court

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A Man Who Forgot He Was a Rap Legend

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How the Elderly Lose Their Rights

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A village where little girls turn into boys aged twelve (2015)

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Remembering the Murder You Didn't Commit

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I took my family on the run for 19 years

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Isdal Woman: A mystery death haunting Norway for 46 years

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My son died in 1994 but his heart only stopped beating this year

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Why I published in a predatory journal

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The first woman to finish the Boston Marathon in 1967 has run it again at age 70

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Arturo Di Modica has a point

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How 1,600 People Went Missing from U.S. Public Lands

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Foster father takes in only terminally ill children

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Building software to identify trends in unsolved murders

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The Isdalen mystery

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25 Years After Junk Science Conviction, Texas Admits Sonia Cacy's Innocence

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The WhatsApp suicide

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I went to Nigeria to meet a man who scammed me

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Judges Rely on a Flawed $2 Drug Test That Puts Innocent People Behind Bars

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The Indian Miracle-Buster Stuck in Finland

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Death by gentrification: the killing that shamed San Francisco

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Custom resume from someone who wanted to work at Airbnb (2015)

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A Woman Who Makes Prosthetic Pinkies for Ex-Yakuza Members

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The mystery of India’s deadly exam scam

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A bad citizen in Javaland (2006)

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The Other France

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Murder in the Alps

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Jello Biafra's 1979 campaign for Mayor of San Francisco

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14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School

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Better and worse ways to spot a liar

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An Ex-Cop's War on Lie Detectors

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A man who was jailed on the fantasy evidence of a single hair

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The Lonely End: in aging Japan, thousands die alone and unnoticed

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When I lost my hands making flatscreens I can't afford, nobody would help me

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Lost Brother in Yosemite

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The Gangster's Guide to Upward Mobility

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Thanks, HN: You helped discover a disease and save lives

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She's Her Own Twin

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US man finds lost mother in an isolated Amazon tribe

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The Indian Miracle-Buster Stuck in Finland

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For Hire: Dedicated Young Man With Down Syndrome

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The Reykjavik Confessions

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Euthanasia Coaster

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How to tell when someone is lying?

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Man's high-tech paradise lost: bionic eye removed

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The Indian sanitary pad revolutionary

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The Brief, Wondrous Life of Zina Lahr

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After Tyrone Hayes said that a chemical was harmful, its maker pursued him

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Bitcoin 2.0 explained

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Yesterday, the Internet Solved a 20-year-old Mystery

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Alternative Christmas Message - 4OD [UK]

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Make-A-Wish Foundation Turns San Francisco Into Gotham for 5-Year-Old Batkid

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Glare from London 'fryscraper' blamed for melting cars

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The Lie Behind the Lie Detector [pdf]

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Isamu Kaneko, creator of the encrypted P2P file sharing program Winny, has died

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The Deadly Corruption of Clinical Trials

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I Was a Political Prisoner at Birth in North Korea

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Kim Jong Il's Grandson Gives an Interview

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A Linux dev who helped thousands needs help to fight cancer

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I was sued for libel under an unjust law

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How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit

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Batman's Real Story

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US bars friends over Twitter joke

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Father's homemade machine helps disabled son to walk (video)

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Wow: Intel unveils 1 teraflop chip with 50-plus cores

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Knitting machine from the 80s hacked to "print" digital images

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This is what it's like for an innocent man to spend thirty years in jail

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Brooke the Immortal: An American Child May Hold Secrets to Aging

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How I Ran An Ad on Fox News via Google TV Ads

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She lived in a New York hotel for more than 40 years, but her life was a mystery

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Retired teacher's pension stopped as provider refuses to believe she is not dead

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Milwaukee reporter investigates cousin's 1978 car bombing death

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Improbable Island, one of the largest and longest-running online text adventures

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A writer fabricated a series of stories for Atlas Obscura

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A teen's fatal plunge into the London underworld

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The Solution of the Zodiac Killer's 340-Character Cipher

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Jon Pretty wins in court against sexual harassment claims by Scala community

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The Delusion of the Polygraph

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Japan police: Nearly 4k who died alone at home not found for over a month

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