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TIL that Third Man Syndrome is a phenomenon where people in extreme situations perceive an unseen presence offering advice and encouragement, acting as a psychological support mechanism during intense stress.

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gMPp4 TIL a Chinese general once scared away an army of 10,000, with a flute. The well known general sat on the wall of his undermanned city playing the flute, with the gates flung open. The opposition assumed it to be a trap and retreated.
4X666 TIL in 1977 a group of Chicago Sun-Times journalists bought a dive bar and used it as a front to uncover and expose political corruption and payoffs.
pJvA TIL: In Kenya, homosexuality is a crime with 96% of Kenyans thinking it is unacceptable. Yet the second most popular search in the country was ‘gay monster cock’.
w947 TIL: In 2000, for the sole purpose of trolling the MPAA, a programmer created a mostly useless, legal program that shared a name with the recently released, illegal program for decrypting DVD video, DeCSS.
9bZB TIL of Ken McElroy, the “town bully” of Skidmore, Missouri whose unsolved 1981 murder was witnessed by as many as 46 people