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TIL one of the most successful interrogaters in Nazi Germany, Hanns Scharff, preferred freindliness over torture.

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epn54 TIL that people snort cocoa powder for a high
ADLG7 TIL Clare Hollingworth, an English journalist who first broke the story of the German occupation of Poland in 1939, putting her phone out her window so a doubting British diplomat could hear the tanks.
PYENw TIL the 1994 NBA MVP Hakeem Olajuwon released pairs of $35 sneakers instead of endorsing shoes from other brands. He said, “How can a poor working mother with three boys buy Nikes or Reeboks that cost $120…She can’t. So kids steal these shoes from stores and others. Sometimes they kill for them
VBVvm TIL that a former Kellogg factory worker filmed himself urinating on a cereal conveyor belt at a facility in Memphis, Tennesse, only to upload a video of the incident two years later. Kellogg only learned of the incident after the video was uploaded.
N7mgQ TIL that at almost $11 billion, the annual NYPD budget is more than 3 times higher than the entire UN budget of just over $3 billion.