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TIL that soldiers in the U.S. military’s psychological warfare department (PSYOPS) used loudspeakers to tempt enemy fighters in Afghanistan into battles they couldn’t win by calling them,“ lady men” and “cowardly dogs”.

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QJaNE TIL the Prince of Egypt titular music "Let my People Go" was composed by Hans Zimmer(Transformers, the Rock, Inception, Nolan's Batman trilogy, Call of Duty:Modern Warfare 2, etc.)
Kavw TIL That a friendly exchange between an American and Chinese player in the 1971 World Ping-Pong Championship prompted Mao Zedong to invite the American table-tennis to China, helping re-open Sino-American relations for the first time since the cold war.
wo7d8 TIL "the first unambiguous evidence" of an animal other than humans making plans in one mental state for a future mental state occurred in 1997 when a chimpanzee was observed (over 50x) calmly gathering stones into caches of 3-8 each in order to later throw at zoo visitors while in an agitated state
14VD TIL that Patrick Stewart voiced Emperor Uriel Septim VII, in the Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, and Sean Bean voiced his son, Emperor Martin Septim.
gM0Xb TIL about Patient TN, who suffered two strokes permanently damaging his brain’s visual lobes. Despite being consciously blind, TN was able to navigate through a cluttered obstacle course perfectly, as his subconscious vision, aka “blindsight”, was still intact.