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J17xB TIL Many Amazon Prime Day Deals are fraud and one needs to check price history before buying even from established sellers. For example, "Wyze Lifestyle" jacked up prices for their Wyze Scale X products on Prime Day only to bring them back down with a "Prime Day Deal" (https://imgur.com/Zi8yNVF).
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
b6B8Q TIL: In the 1950s, the Army to built a bunker close to Washington DC so that Congress could go there if there was a nuclear attack. Engineers built a facility 700 ft below a golf course - 2 stories and over 100,000 sq ft - kept secret until 1992, when the Washington Post revealed its existence.
avGM TIL CIA had a hand in overthrowing the democratically elected government of Syria in 1949
nejyW TIL of Clara Brown, a woman who was born a slave in Virginia that, after receiving her freedom, would go on to start a laundry business, become the owner of mines in Colorado during the gold rush, and even traveled to Kansas to help freed slaves build communities