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TIL that you dressed up for Halloween to trick monsters and angry spirits that come back once a year

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dDlpj TIL about Zersetzung, a psychological warfare technique by which the Stasi repressed opponents in East Germany by methods such as gaslighting or spreading rumors
REBl TIL that there are as few as 3200 tigers left in the wild, down from 100000 at the beginning of the 20th Century.
ADDn4 TIL that in 2003, during a case involving stolen lunar samples,a federal court set the value of the moon rocks at $50,800 per gram based on how much it cost the U.S. government to retrieve the samples between 1969 and 1972.
OoYJX TIL Mr. Brightside by The Killers never left U.K. charts. In fact, it was among the top 50 in 2017
69GOW TIL of the 1979 US "Tractorcade". Demanding policy changes, around 3,000 farmers brought their tractors to Washington D.C to create traffic and congestion. However, during the protest a blizzard struck, and the convoy became unexpected heroes shuttling hospital staff through the snow