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TIL if you want to know if someone is a narcissist, you can probably just ask them, according to a study in 2014.

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D1NXJ TILL during the Night of the Long Knives, the Nazis accidentally killed a music critic called Willi Schmid, when their intended target had been someone with a similar surname. A few days after his death, Rudolf Hess visited Willi’s widow and apologised for the mistake, and offered her a pension.
D8re TIL of the smoke filled room experiment, which shows that even if there’s smoke filling a room people will stay for as long as 20 minutes if no one else is reacting to it. Otherwise they’d leave quickly.
ZpybG TIL the most recent known crucifixion took place in 2019 in Saudi Arabia
4X7D6 TIL two German brothers Adolf and Rudolf founded two of the biggest rival shoe companies Adidas and Puma after a family feud drove them apart. This conflict divided their home town to the point that employees of the two companies strictly avoided each other and stuck to separate bars and bakeries.
yVVoe TIL the French progressive rock band Magma wrote lyrics in a fictional language called 'Kobaïan'. The vocalist called it "a phonetic language made by elements of the Slavonic and Germanic languages to be able to express some things musically"