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TIL The reason our voices sound different to us when recorded & played back is due to our skull bones

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KOGQa TIL in Japan you can rent a fake family or family members
8aEab TIL soldiers in the U.S. military’s psychological warfare department (PSYOPS) used loudspeakers to tempt enemy fighters in Afghanistan into battles they couldn’t win by calling them,”lady men” and “cowardly dogs”.
RWpl TIL a modern jet fighter is purposefully designed to be aerodynamically unstable, with onboard computers which constantly work against this instability. This allows the jet to pull off super-agile manoeuvres by relaxing the efforts of the computer systems
e0woE Microbial life in Chile’s Atacama Desert bursts into bloom when moisture is available.
448w TIL in 1916 there was a lynching on a man with over 10,000 spectators, including children on lunch break. He was hung up over a fire and then had his body parts sold as souvenirs around town. Then a photographer sold his pictures of the lynching as postcards…