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TIL about the Nail Men of Austro-Hungary and Germany, large wooden effigies people would pay to drive nails into, the most famous maybe 'Iron Hindenburg' adjacent to the Victory Column in Berlin.

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e0yDJ TIL Korean actress Cho Yeo-jeong, known as Ms.Park in Parasite, starred in a sex comedy when most young Korean actresses stay away from nude scenes as much as possible. Despite the collective concerns that she was "going nude too often," she chose another period thriller with explicit sex scenes
x4K5 TIL that whales are so big, they can take up to 100 years of creatures consuming them to decompose
Me8pa TIL as a result of it's war with the US government during the 1970s, the Church of Scientology discovered internal documents from the CIA which proposed a mind-control experiment in which hypnotized subjects would have an uncontrollable impulse to ‘commit a nuisance’ on Groundhog Day in 1961.
EMld TIL there was a briefly popular social movement in the early 1930s called the “Technocracy Movement.” Technocrats proposed replacing politicians and businessmen with scientists and engineers who had the expertise to manage the economy.
4kKgX TIL: Black Sabbath, the band credited with releasing the first Heavy Metal album, got the idea to create "scary music" after realizing people pay money to watch horror films and visit haunted houses.