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TIL An American woman from California named Carla de Vries kissed Hitler at the Berlin Olympics in 1936

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ZonY TIL smoking scorpions to get high is a growing problem in Pakistan. The high lasts around 10 hours and supposedly makes everything look like it’s “dancing.” The scorpions can be smoked straight or mixed with tobacco or hash.
0wwZR TIL before the electric telegraph, there was a system called the semaphore telegraph, where signals were communicated visually using a network of towers topped with pivoting blades and paddles that could be rearranged to indicate different symbols
B05L TIL there is a “Zip Bomb” called 42.zip that when downloaded is only 42 Kilobytes, but actually contains 4,500,000 Gigabytes uncompressed. The file crashes computers when Anti-Virus software comes across it during a routine scan and tries to open the entire file, using up all the computer’s memory.
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m1pZp TIL I learned when iran's king reza shah banned the hijab in 1933 many conservative women chose to either stay at home or wore it in rural areas or in extreme cases commit suicide