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TIL that the Soviets used to send astronauts up with a sawed-off shotgun to fight off bears when they returned to Earth in the Siberian Wilderness.

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xXRg TIL that the US National Archives has banned the search term wikileaks.
X0Vkr TIL that, among many other things, Air Force General Curtis LeMay is credited as being one of the two people that are responsible for Judo surviving World War II. Martial Arts training was banned for the populace during the Occupation of Japan, but LeMay instituted it into USAF training regimen.
Br0Jr TIL that the Anthropologist Ursula G. Bower (aka "Jungle Queen") led the Naga Headhunters into battle against the Imperial Japanese Army during WW2. Her weapons of choice were twin 9mm Sten SMGs. She was so effective, that the Japanese put a bounty on her. Nobody collected.
nPdW TIL that the false-consensus effect or false-consensus bias is an attributional type of cognitive bias whereby people tend to overestimate the extent to which their opinions, beliefs, preferences, values, and habits are normal and typical of those of others
1a0wW TIL Sigmund Freud was nominated 12 times for a Medicine Prize and once for a Literature Prize between 1915 and 1938, one year before his death in London. Romain Rolland, the French Nobel novelist, backed Freud's "new analysis of emotional and intellectual life" for a Nobel in literature