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TIL that North Korea exports human hair to skirt the impacts of sanctions

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E16l0 TIL one unofficial method of defending merchant vessels against Somali pirates is to blast Britney Spears music. And it has been reported to be effective.
mxk4o TIL about the illusory truth effect: the tendency to believe false information to be correct after repeated exposure. A repeated statement is easier to process than a new, unrepeated statement, which leads people to think that the repeated one is more truthful.
6EGv8 TIL that Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night was a 1945 plan developed by Shirō Ishii to wage biological warfare upon civilian population centers in Southern California in the United States during the final months of World War II, using plague fleas from unit 731.
j64yj TIL the 2020 United States presidential election had a voter turnout of 66.6%.
51wP TIL “Contagious shooting” is the name for the phenomenon when one person in a group shoots, the entire group starts shooting (even if they don’t know why they’re shooting)