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TIL To put an end to the 2002 Nord-Ost siege in Moscow Russian officials decided to use a classified gas to put everyone inside asleep but the gas killed over 100 of the hostages while Russian officials would not tell doctors what was used in the gas.

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VMDmZ TIL in the 1950s an American economist (Armen A. Alchian) figured out lithium was used to fuel Hydrogen bombs just by looking at publicly-available stock prices.
b9jE TIL that the Three Stooges were on Hitler’s personal death list.
JYPw1 TIL that Dutch people, currently the tallest population in the world, actually used to be the shortest population in Europe just 150-200 years ago
p80k8 TIL a Revolutionary-era wooden ship was found on the site of the World Trade Center during excavations after 9/11
neLpP TIL there is a theory that explains advertising wants, international conflicts, friendship and rivlary. Mimetic theory’s key insight is that human desire is not an autonomous process, but a collective one. We want things because other people want them.