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TIL North Korea have dug several tunnels under the DMZ since the 60s, each large enough to move 2000 troops into the South in under an hour

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BrVmk TIL that in the 1950s, psychologist Milton Rokeach performed an experiment in which three men with Messianic delusions lived together for two years. He wanted to study how they would reconcile their delusions with the existence of two others with the same irrational belief.
97yB TIL that scholar Theodore Roszak believes that a weekday edition of the New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England. (Fixed to meet rules)
v1oMR TIL about the Montreal experiments at McGill University (1957-1964) by psychiatrist Donald Cameron and funded by the CIA. The patients, mainly diagnosed with depression & schizophrenia, expected positive changes but instead suffered severely under conditions not in accordance with human rights.
raXW TIL when Titanic went down, its shipping company stopped the crew’s pay but charged families the freight costs of shipping the bodies back. Most couldn’t afford it, which is why there are so many memorials rather than graves for the more than 500 crewmen from Southampton who died aboard the ship.
KZWQ TIL that in 2013, British scientists claimed to have found extraterrestrial life form in Earth’s stratosphere