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TIL VR has been shown to effectively reduce racism in various research studies.

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8eM0Z TIL about failed WW2 plot: Operation Pastorius. In which Americans were recruited by Nazis to sabotage the US from within.
JYnnj TIL that a woman mistook some cheese for cocaine and so she hired a hit man to kill a house full of people to steal it. The hit man then turned out to be a cop.
VMpd0 TIL Leonhard Euler was the most prolific mathematician of all time. He wrote more than 500 books and papers during his lifetime — about 800 pages per year — with 400 further publications appearing posthumously. His collected works and correspondence are still not completely published
OodGg TIL that Tolkien invented the concept of Orcs for purely for Lord of the Rings - basing their name off of an ancient Roman God of the Underworld
6xY TIL the official name of the # symbol is “octothorpe”