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TIL that there are growing anti-Korean racist movements in Japan as a result of government’s nationalistic movements

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VMk4Z TIL Steven Spielberg directed a sci-fi film named Firelight when he was only 17. It was made on a $500 budget, premiered at his local theater, and made $501 total.
gMd4b TIL: In 2015, researchers testing the efficiency of mosquito repellents used a Victoria’s Secret perfume because they thought the floral fragrance would attract mosquitoes. To their surprise, they found it repels mosquitoes better than a range of mosquito deterrents.
XEj0R TIL feedback loops in Systems Theory. An example of feeback loops are birth rates( a reinforcing loop) and death rate( a balancing loop) all of which act on a giving population. Reinforcing loops enhance what is already existent( like a good investment) and balancing loops level things out.
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M7NKa TIL of the April Uprising against the Ottoman Empire and the "Bulgarian Horrors" it resulted in. It was brutally suppressed by the Ottomans by massacring some 15,000 Bulgarians, resulting in a public outcry in across Europe and eventually to Bulgaria's freedom.