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TIL when accused of influencing a suicide pact by backmasking the words “Do it” in one of their songs, Judas Priest said that if they wanted to insert subliminal commands, they would have preferred to insert the command “buy more of our records”.

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yQ6nJ TIL Guatemala had a 36+ year long civil war during which the government committed mass genocide against the Maya. The military chief became the first person to be convicted of ordering forced disappearances and the president the first former head of state to be tried for genocide by his own country.
oB0wK TIL that the Allies liberated Paris from the Nazis on 8/25/44.
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6ExdX TIL Oranienburg is considered "the most dangerous city in Germany." Not because of crime, but because of the hundreds of unexploded bombs and other ordinance from WWII. As of 2017, there's an estimated 350-400 bombs still buried in the city.