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TIL the UK spent £2.5m in the 1980s to imprison a consensual gay S&M community. The dominant partners were charged with assault and the submissive partners were charged with aiding their own assault.

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mpQR TIL hallucinations can occur in any sensory modality—visual (sight), auditory (sound), olfactory (smell), gustatory (taste), tactile (touch), equilibrioceptive (balance), nociceptive (harm), thermoceptive (temperature), and chronoceptive (time).
eppd4 TIL ‘Operation bodyguard’ was used in WW2, a combination of inflatable tanks, phoney insignias, fake radio transmissions, dummy paratroopers and even feeding faulty information to mislead spies. These efforts helped delude Germany into believing Calais would be the site of the D-day landings.
VBl5Z TIL that in December 2022 a dissected human heart from an unknown person was found in a salt pile near at a Department of Transportation facility 60 miles southwest of Nashville Tennessee
GboN TIL when the Soviet Union launched the 1st satellite (Sputnik) into space in 1957, the event created such a profound public shock in the US that, in less than a year, congress had increased education funding six-fold and Eisenhower had signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act - creating NASA.
XK9k TIL Once during Ramadan, Condoleezza Rice was invited by Muammar Gaddafi to dinner at his private kitchen. After dinner, Gaddafi told her he had made a videotape for her. It was a collection of photos of Rice with world leaders set to the music of a song called ‘Black Flower in the White House,’.