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TIL that Martin Luther wrote a 65,000 word antisemitic treatise called “On the Jews and Their Lies,” which states that Jews are “full of the devil’s feces…which they wallow in like swine,” and that their synagogue is “an incorrigible whore and an evil slut.”

1avxP TIL about the "Bielefeld conspiracy", that says the German city Bielefeld doesn't exist. This story was created by students in 1994 as an internet post, to show the spreading and argumentation of conspiracy theories. Today it is a longtime running gang in whole Germany.
W70Dd TIL that during ww2 the Japanese had bombed the also un-contacted cousins of the Sentinelese people, the Jarawa people live nearby and they only established voluntary contact with outsiders in the 1990’s.
p8Jl4 TIL Germany has its own semi-equivalent of American "sovereign citizens", who consider themselves citizens of a surviving Nazi German government-in-exile, and as such not subject to the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany.
dDx4j TIL about a study that reports the effects of 30 different scents on sexual arousal. It was found that the combined scent of lavender and pumpkin pie produced the greatest increase in penile blood flow.
KLJ TIL the Coriolis Effect can be visualized on a merry-go-round aka roundabout, by throwing a ball to a fellow rider directly across from you. To him it will appear to curve opposite of the way you are spinning, although to a viewer not on the merry-go-round it appears to fly straight.