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TIL that in 1922, the New York Times reported that “several reliable, well-informed sources confirmed the idea that Hitler’s anti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded, and that he was merely using anti-Semitic propaganda to catch masses of followers and keep them aroused”.

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7rXe7 TIL of the Zoo hypothesis. Life is common in the Universe, but extraterrestrial civilizations intentionally avoid communication with Earth to allow for natural evolution and sociocultural development, and to avoid interplanetary contamination, similarly to people observing animals at a zoo.
oB8G8 TIL of the "Law of Triviality" - AKA the "The Bike Shedding" effect. C. Northcote Parkinson's argument claims individuals or organizations spend a disproportionate amount of time on trivial, easy to grasp issues rather than far more important, difficult tasks.
kOaQg TIL about 'Final Girl', a trope common in horror films in which several victims are killed one-by-one by a killer amid increasing terror, culminating in a climax in which the last surviving member of the group, usually female, either vanquishes the killer or escapes.
BrrJD TIL alcohol can impact your balance years after you've been sober. Alcoholics who went sober were found to suffer from balance issues that remained for years after they kicked the habit.
bDLp TIL Johns Hopkins no longer performs sex change operations because they believe the desire to change one’s sex is a mental disorder.