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TIL when the UN's Nordic Battalion was sent to Bosnia in 1993 it disobeyed orders, broke rules of engagement, faked loss of communication to HQ, and became known as one the most trigger-happy peacekeeper units. This enabled them to achieve their mission objective: to protect civilians at all cost.

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MejNV TIL about hypnagogia, the transition between wakefulness and sleep during which many hallucinations can occur, including the sensation of being bigger/smaller than yourself, floating, or falling.
7VVL TIL in the 60s, the CIA sponsored a Harvard study where undergraduate student were humiliated and subjected to “brutalizing psychological experiments”. The student who had the worse reaction to the experiment was Ted Kaczynski who later became the Unabomber.
enrg TIL … that fake poop has been a favored espionage tool.
kXJB TIL propanolol, a blood pressure medication, is a performance enhancing drug used by musicians, actors, and public speakers to reduce anxiety symptoms
7rgMX TIL During World War 2, an edible explosive was created under the code name “Aunt Jemima”-it was a mixture of flour and the powdery explosive HMX. It could pass for flour and even be used in cooking. It was smuggled by Chinese guerrillas to bypass Japanese checkpoints.