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TIL Al Qaeda called out Iran for peddling 9/11 conspiracy theories.

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xWxw TIL that childhood trauma (like being emotionally neglected or losing a parent) increases the likelihood of the adult onset of chronic disease like cancer, heart disease, and mental illness along with being more likely to be violent, have their lives shortened by 20 years, be an alcoholic, and more.
Q6yk TIL: After WW2 the Japanese Admiral who invented the idea of kamikaze pilots committed ritual suicide, seppuku, as an apology. After cutting through his abdomen he refused the customary beheading, instead slowly dying over several hours.
dDlvB TIL Robert Taylor, inventor of Softsoap (pump soap), realized that his idea had no patent protection. So he borrowed $12m & bought 100 million pumps, the entire American output for the next two years, giving him time to establish the brand without competition. In 1987, he sold it to Colgate for $61m
KYW4J TIL that in the 2004 and 2008 Paralympics, athletes with an intellectual disability didn't compete, after It was discovered that 10 of the 12 players of the Spanish Basketball team that won the gold medal at the 2000 Paralympics weren't disabled
e08lk TIL about dark pattern design used by social platforms to deliberately mislead users into continual use and giving up more data.