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TIL that the Stasi(East German Secret Police) used a psychological technique called Zersetzung, which involved things like breaking into a targets house and rearranging things, calling in the middle of the night, and sending dildos.

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XEvGQ TIL that in 2019, scientists observed the radioactive decay of xenon-124. Described as an "ultra-rare event", Xenon's half-life is one of the slowest observed, with a decay time more than a trillion times longer than the history of the universe.
M7VEB TIL that 'Magikkun', which means “mask fraud”, is a word that South Koreans use to describe people who hide their facial features by wearing masks on dating apps.
OG7mY TIL Afolf Hitler's father was born Alois Schickelgruber, and his biological father is unknown. He convinced authorities to make his stepfather Johann Hiedler his legal father, and change his last name to Hiedler. For unknown reasons, authorities misspelled his last name as Hitler
QJWy6 TIL a 2010 Study Found Ozzy Osbourne to Carry "Several Hundred Thousand" Genome Variants that Have Never Been Seen by Scientists, that of Which Make Him Less Susceptible to the Harms of Drugs and Alcohol - and Ultimately a Mutant
6EJlZ TIL the internet's first uploaded image was of the joke band Les Horribles Cernettes (LHC), an all-girl group comprised of girlfriends & assistants of CERN employees. One chorus went "You never spend your nights with me / You don't go out with other girls either / You only love... your collider"