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TIL that as a result of a 20-year-old online joke that the German city of Bielefield doesn’t actually exist, the city released a press statement titled ‘There Really is a Bielefeld!’. However as it was released on April 1st, this humorously only added to the conspiracy.
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TIL that laughing while being tickled is actually a defensive mechanism because our bodies anticipate pain and automatically try to show submission to an aggressor.
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TIL that the feeling of getting lost inside a mall known as the Gruen transfer is a form of manipulation.
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TIL that in the 1950's, pilots of massive B47's would practice rolling the huge planes upside down while 'tossing' nuclear bombs out, because it helped pilots escape the area faster, avoiding blast damage
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TIL the U.S. put Italian-Americans in an internment camp in Montana during WWII as a result of Executive Order 9066