TIL "borderline personality disorder" was named to describe patients who seemed on the borderline of psychosis [source, comments]

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Bis heute werden in Ruanda Massengräber gefunden, drei Jahrzehnte nach dem Völkermord von 1994. Oft treten dabei direkte Verbindungen zur Gegenwart zutage – und zum anhaltenden Krieg im angrenzenden Kongo. https://www.woz.ch/!64G7KYM5NDKF

In Sci-fi when ships come out of hyperspace jumps they are usually orientated the same way as other/enemy ships, implying there is a rule for which way is up and down in the galaxy

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On this day, 9 April 1948, the Deir Yassin massacre took place when around 120 fighters from the Zionist paramilitary groups Irgun and Lehi attacked the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, in which most of the residents were stonecutters and quarry workers (content note: sexual violence). From 100 to 150 or more Palestinians, including many women and children, were killed, among them people who had been decapitated, disembowelled, mutilated, and raped. One Zionist militiaman, Yehuda Feder, described his part in the massacre: “I killed an armed Arab man and two Arab girls of 16 or 17 who were helping the Arab who was shooting. I stood them against a wall and blasted them with two rounds from the Tommy gun”.He also recounted looting from the Palestinians' homes: "a lot of money and silver and gold jewelry fell into our hands", and described the massacre as a "tremendous operation".Other Israelis later reported witnessing other atrocities like an elderly couple shot in the back, and one man tied to a tree and set on fire. Dozens of bodies were then piled up and burned. Mordechai Gichon, a Zionist intelligence officer described the aftermath as looking "like a pogrom… When the Cossacks burst into Jewish neighborhoods, then that should have looked something like this.” The incident led to many Palestinians fleeing in terror, and was a key event in the ethnic cleansing of the area, during which over 700,000 of the 900,000 Palestinian Arab residents of what became Israel were expelled or forced to flee from their homes.The Israeli army, which incorporated Irgun, today still refuses to release its photographs and documentation of the massacre.Learn more about Palestinian stone workers in this book: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/stone-men-the-palestinians-who-built-israel-andrew-ross To access this hyperlink, click our link in bio then click this photo Pictured: Orphans whose parents were massacred

TIL the sirens from Homers Odyssey were never said to be actually beautiful, or even mermaids. Instead, they were strange human-faced bird creatures who lured men to their deaths by promising them wisdom and knowledge of the future [source, comments]

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