TIL - the recorder can actually make decent music. Ralf Bienioschek performs BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY a Recorder Cover of the song by QUEEN. And it's a good cover.
TIL the Pentagon sinked a fishing boat suspected of carrying drugs. The US Defense Secretary gave an order to strike again to finish survivors in the water
TIL about Miki Endo who sacrificed her life giving warning broadcasts during the 2011 Japanese Tsunami
TIL that right-wing commentator Jeremy Hambly's (AKA The Quartering) first Youtube channel was about claw machines
TIL about Marianne Bachmeier who shot dead the man who sexually assaulted and murdered her 7 year old child
TIL about the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), an anti-communist organization created by the CIA to sway Intellectual opinion against communism
TIL about Trauma Bonding, when a victim of abuse forms an emotional bond with their abusers. This can happen in parent-child relationships.
TIL the House Intelligence Committee recently declined a statute that would have curtailed the scope of DHS domestic spying capabilities, due to concerns of appeasing "stakeholders"
