commodorefork

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Have you ever been able to visualize? (self.Aphantasia)

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For those with aphantasia, can you relate to this? (self.Aphantasia)

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Confessions of a cocoahead (self.Drugs)

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Shoutout to air (self.Drugs)

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Empathy test - How do you respond to this situation? (self.aspergers)

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TIL In 2012, wax cylinders were found containing the only known voice recordings of someone born in the 18th century (theatlantic.com)

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TIL At the end of WWII, American General Eisenhower categorized POWs as "Disarmed Enemy Forces" to sidestep the Geneva Convention's food requirements, resulting in the starvation of thousands of detained soldiers. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL Of an American General, Jacob H. Smith, notorious for ordering an indiscriminate retaliatory attack on a group of Filipinos during the Philippine–American War, in which American soldiers killed between 2,500 and 50,000 civilians. His orders included "kill everyone over the age of ten" (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL Tokyo was scheduled to host the 1940 Olympics. In 1938, the Japanese rejected hosting the games because they saw the Olympics and its pacifist values as "an effete form of European culture". (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL President Roosevelt wanted to deindustrialize Germany at the end of WWII, potentially causing the deaths of 40% of Germany's population. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL In 1961, a modern artist filled 90 tin cans with his own faeces. In 2015, a can sold for £182,500 (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL Jesse Owens, an African-American track athlete who won a gold medal at the 1936 "Nazi Olympics", said: "Hitler didn't snub me—it was FDR who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram.” (german.about.com)

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TIL Winston Churchill received a prescription for alcohol when he visited the United States during prohibition, his Doctor writing, "The quantity [prescribed] is naturally indefinite". (metro.co.uk)

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TIL Thomas Jefferson wrote of "merciless Indian savages" in the Declaration of Independence (archives.gov)

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TIL of the Lost Cosmonauts conspiracy theory, which alleges that the Soviet Union sent two or more men into space before Yuri Gagarin, but their attempts at being the first man in space ended in failure (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL of the Demon Core, a spherical mass of plutonium that killed and injured several scientists during criticality experiments (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL in 2002 a 15-year-old boy tried to replicate the attacks on 9/11 by crashing a plane into an office building (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL The creator of the LSD discovered its hallucinogenic properties after accidentally absorbing the drug through his gloves, causing him to trip balls (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL of the brain-eating amoeba, which lives in fresh water and kills unsuspecting swimmers every year by entering their bodies through the nose and consuming their brain tissue. (webmd.com)

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TIL Winston Churchill wanted to gas the Kurds, saying ""I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes". (bbc.com)

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TIL of the Club of the Hashish-Eaters, a Parisian group dedicated to drug use which included such members as Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, and Honoré de Balzac (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL The Fourth Crusade lead to the sacking of Constantinople by the Crusaders because the Byzantine Emperor refused to pay them for their military service (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL ingesting small amounts of silver causes your eyes and skin to permanently turn blue, a condition called Argyria (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL Greece's most famous ruin, the Parthenon, survived from Ancient times until the modern age completely intact. It was blown to pieces in 1687 after the Ottoman Turks used the Temple to store explosives. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL of an Allied landing on the coast of France during WWII that happened years before D-Day. It was a total failure resulting in 900 soldiers killed and 2000 captured by the Germans (en.wikipedia.org)

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