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TIL A 26yr old pretending to be a CIA agent convinced people to try to rob banks.

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Bgv0b TIL in 1990, a Domino's Pizza owner in Washington DC noticed a record-breaking number of pizza orders from the Pentagon leading up to the Invasion of Kuwait. Similar increases happened leading up the Panama Invasion and Grenada Invasion; the intelligence leakage became known as The Pizza Meter
kOwx5 TIL Rutka Laskier, a Jewish girl from Poland who died in the Nazi Auschwitz death camp at the age of 14, wrote a diary describing her experiences, and her diary was brought to light and published in 2006
4e8R TIL Starbucks has “stealth” stores disguised as neighborhood coffee shops
yVOM TIL Hunter S. Thompson terrorized Jack Nicholson on his birthday by playing the sound of a pig being eaten alive by bears and shooting at his house.
PYeMn TIL of a Krasue, a Southeast Asian creature of folklore. The entity appears as the floating head of a beautiful girl but has internal organs hanging out below the neck. It floats through the night dragging its entrails and is said to eat both humans and animals. It drinks blood and eats organs.