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TIL that the term “public relations” was invented by E. Bernays because the term “propaganda” was in misscredit due to the nazis use of it.

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d89Ld TIL mobster Al Capone, said the Lindbergh baby kidnapping was "the most outrageous thing I have ever heard of." He offered $10,000 of his own money for information leading to the return of the child.
BmMb TIL Two shipwrecks have been discovered in the search for MH370
8aV7V TIL about the high levels of PTSD in low-income, urban neighborhoods in the United States. A sample of 1900 patients in Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital found that 87.8% of the sample suffered at least one-lifetime traumatic event, and the lifetime prevalence of PTSD was 46.2%.
aWOy TIL that anyone over the age 18 can perform a marriage ceremony in the state of Alaska.
Wkr19 TIL that in the 1940s, the USSR had a program designed to study the excrement of foreign leaders. It was believed that traces of various compounds in feces could give insights into each leader's psychology.