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TIL Scientists made a tractor beam

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kJXRe TIL finger pinching conspiracy theory is an antifeminist conspiracy theory from South Korea. It claims there is a deliberate plot to spread and promote misandry through symbolic hand gestures, and that radical feminist groups have propagated these hidden messages to humiliate men with small penises.
7rlwb TIL there was a practice called Posthumous Execution where a dead body was mutilated as punishment. It was performed to show that even in death, one cannot escape justice. Eg. Vlad the Impaler was beheaded following his assassination, Rasputin was exhumed from the ground and burned with gasoline.
DQ0xJ TIL that the Union Jack isn’t Great Britain’s legal flag and is only used as such due to precedent.
PYDYJ TIL about the Pseudo-Geber corpus, a group of influential works on chemistry and alchemy from the 13th and 14th centuries, whose authors are unknown because they attributed them to the legendary alchemist Geber in an attempt to gain credibility.
NrZJ TIL Jazz great Ella Fitzgerald by age 18 had taught herself to sing 2 notes at once like Mongolian folk singers!