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Vj9D TIL to obtain tears of the big-eyed lorises, skewers are inserted into the animals anuses and run through their bodies until they exit the mouth, the still-living animals are then roasted over a fire and the tears that stream from their eyes are collected and used in traditional Asian medicine.
xVb55 TIL of Jack Barsky, a former KGB spy who was sent to work undercover in the USA. He quit his profession by lying to his handlers that he had AIDS. They cut him off as they were afraid of STDs spreading in the Soviet Union. Barsky never returned to Russia.
oBOYr TIL sound can be focused into a singular spot with an acoustic lens like light with an optical lens
D1BPV TIL Hitler used a propaganda technique called the "Big lie". The use of a lie so "colossal" that no one would believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously
5V9Nr TIL FDA guidelines allow bottled water to be labeled as artesian, groundwater, distilled, deionized, reverse osmosis, mineral, purified, sparkling, spring and/or sterile