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Feb 1 21 tweets 7 min read
1994: Bill Gates bought da Vinci's private journal for $30.8 million.

Then immediately

- Locked it in a vault where no one can see it
- Denied all researcher access

Reason?

These 500-year-old pages contain a discovery so terrifying, Gates refuses to let the public know. Image The notebook is called the **Codex Leicester**

72 pages written between 1506–1510
All in da Vinci’s strange mirror-script

It covers astronomy, hydrodynamics, geology…

But it’s not just science
There’s a pattern hidden in these pages Image
Jan 25 20 tweets 5 min read
🚨 Your Smartphone has been hacked through "Public WI-Fi" if you see THESE 9 signs.

I missed sign #4 completely.

I connected to Starbucks WiFi for 6 minutes.

Someone in Romania now has my Gmail password, bank login, and 4,700 private photos.

Here are the 9 warning signs I should have seen: Warning Sign #1: The network name was SLIGHTLY off.

Real network: "Starbucks_WiFi_Guest"

Fake network: "Starbucks-Free-WiFi"

Hackers create "evil twin" networks that look identical.

Your phone auto-connects.
You never notice.

Here's an exzmple: Image
Jan 24 23 tweets 4 min read
🚨 19 things that will Change Your Life if you start them in 2026.

1. Start drinking water the second you wake up. Yes, Start drinking water the second you wake up.

Before phone. Before coffee. Before anything.

16oz of water rehydrates your brain, flushes toxins, and kickstarts metabolism.

Your body lost a liter overnight through breathing. Refill it.
Jan 23 17 tweets 4 min read
This is Jocko Willink.

He's a Navy SEAL commander who wakes up at 4:30am and posts a picture of his watch every single day.

I spends months to crack the code so you don't have to.

Here's the 5am protocol (that doesn't require superhuman discipline):🧵 Image Most people think Jocko is just "built different."

Wrong.

Neuroscientist Dr. Matthew Walker studied Navy SEAL sleep patterns for 8 years.

He found something shocking: Elite performers don't fight biology. They hack it.
Jan 16 18 tweets 3 min read
How to spot a liar in 30 seconds ( dark psychology tricks FBI interrogation officers use):

A THREAD 🧵

Trick #1: Ignore the eyes Image FBI agents catch liars for a living.

After 20,000+ interrogations, they discovered something shocking:

83% of people miss the ONE signal that exposes every lie.

Here's how to spot deception in 30 seconds flat:
Jan 15 15 tweets 3 min read
I just discovered psychological tricks so manipulative, therapists debate whether they should be taught.

These are the same tactics used by:

-Cult leaders
-Master salespeople
-FBI interrogators

How to be irresistible in 5 minutes:

11 dark psychology tricks(#7 feels illegal) Image The first 7 seconds are everything.

Harvard researchers found people make 11 major decisions about you before you speak.

Your body language triggers their amygdala (fear center) or prefrontal cortex (trust center).

Get this wrong and you're fighting uphill.
Jan 13 18 tweets 3 min read
This is Chris Voss.

He negotiated 150+ hostage situations for the FBI with a 93% success rate.

He never raised his voice. Not even once.

I had to know how he does it.

5 psychological rules that will make you dangerous in any conversation:🧵 Image FBI hostage negotiator Chris Voss never raises his voice.

Even when terrorists threaten to kill hostages.

He uses something called "tactical empathy"—lowering his voice when tension rises.

The quieter he gets, the more control he has.
Jan 12 19 tweets 4 min read
World War 2. Pacific Theater.

Pilots were crashing planes. Not from enemy fire, but from exhaustion.

The US military invested $6M to solve it.

They created a 2-minute sleep method with a 96% success rate.

Here's the classified technique they don't want you to know: 🧵 Image You're lying in bed.

Eyes closed. Mind racing.

It's been 2 hours.

The US Military solved this exact problem in 1981—teaching fighter pilots to sleep anywhere, anytime, in under 10 minutes.

Here's the exact method:
Jan 10 22 tweets 4 min read
People think Dominic O'Brien memorizing 2,808 playing cards (54 decks) after seeing them once is genius.

But it's not.

He has an average IQ.

His secret?
A technique dating back to Ancient Rome.

Here's his exact method to remember anything (and it's shockingly simple:
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You're forgetting 90% of what you learn within 48 hours.

That book you read? Gone.

That course you took? Vanished.

Here's the 2,500-year-old technique that lets you remember EVERYTHING—used by memory champions to memorize 10,000+ digits:
Jan 4 20 tweets 4 min read
How to negotiate any price down (10 psychological tactics):

a THREAD 🧵

Tactic 1: The Flinch

When they say the price, visibly react. Image Raise eyebrows. Lean back. Go silent for 3 seconds.

Studies show sellers drop prices 15-20% just from your body language.

Your silence creates pressure THEY need to fill.
Dec 31, 2025 17 tweets 3 min read
I worked at Geek Squad for 4 years.

92% of "slow computer" appointments were fixed with the SAME 8 steps.

We charged $149 for something you can do in 10 minutes.

I'm exposing the entire playbook: Image Step 1: Kill startup programs murdering your boot time.

Windows: Ctrl+Shift+Esc → Startup tab

Mac: System Preferences → Users & Login Items

Disable everything except antivirus. You can launch programs manually when you need them.
Sep 12, 2025 18 tweets 6 min read
1969: A French astrophysicist uncovered something more dangerous than UFOs.

He claimed the CIA was running a hidden "control system" using the phenomenon to manipulate human beliefs.

The evidence will haunt you: 🧵 Image Jacques Vallée.

NASA advisor.
Internet pioneer.
Astrophysicist turned whistleblower.

He helped map Mars for the U.S. government.
But when he looked into UFOs…

He saw something that made him question *everything*.

It wasn’t about aliens. Image
Sep 6, 2025 20 tweets 6 min read
Chinese whistleblowers just exposed the $400B luxury lie.

Leaked documents reveal what Gucci, LV, Hermès & Chanel are hiding:

• Real production costs: $12 for your $3,000 bag
• "Premium leather" rated as lowest quality
• Secret markup formula: 97% pure profit

The full story:🧵Image For decades, Western luxury brands ruled China

They were seen as a symbol of success
-Of power
-Of freedom

But something strange is happening in 2025:

-Sales are down
-Loyalty is fading
-And the rich are turning their backs
Sep 5, 2025 20 tweets 7 min read
The most dangerous book of the 19th century wasn't written by Marx, Darwin, or Nietzsche.

It was written by this ARISTOCRAT who exposed the system from the inside.

But:
Churches banned it.
Governments censored it.
Copies were destroyed.

Here's why they were so terrified:🧵 Image
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The writer?

Leo Tolstoy — author of *War and Peace* and *Anna Karenina*

By 1890s, he was a spiritual time bomb
He questioned the church, rejected power, and called religion a tool of control

Then he wrote *Resurrection* — his final novel
A confession
A rebellion
A revolution Image
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Sep 3, 2025 20 tweets 7 min read
This psychiatrist accidentally stumbled upon *proof* of reincarnation

He documented 2,500+ children (across 5 continents) who remembered past lives in shocking detail

The evidence?
Beyond explanation

What he uncovered will shatter everything you think about death: 🧵 Image
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Meet Dr. Ian Stevenson

A Canadian psychiatrist and professor at the University of Virginia

He wasn't spiritual
He wasn't into the paranormal

He just wanted answers to one question:

What happens when we die? Image
Aug 27, 2025 20 tweets 7 min read
1994: Bill Gates bought da Vinci's private journal for $30.8 million.

Then immediately

- Locked it in a vault where no one can see it
- Denied all researcher access

Reason?

These 500-year-old pages contain a discovery so terrifying, Gates refuses to let the public know. Image The notebook is called the **Codex Leicester**

72 pages written between 1506–1510
All in da Vinci’s strange mirror-script

It covers astronomy, hydrodynamics, geology…

But it’s not just science
There’s a pattern hidden in these pages Image
Jun 15, 2025 18 tweets 6 min read
🚨 BREAKING

March 8, 1971: FBI's biggest nightmare begins.

8 ordinary citizens break into FBI's office & steal every secret file.

The FBI launched their biggest manhunt ever.
But never caught them.

43 years later, in 2014, the truth emerged (and it shocked the world)👇 Image It all started with a secret government project.

For decades, the FBI had been tapping phones, infiltrating homes, and surveilling citizens.

This wasn’t Hollywood fiction.

This was the COINTELPRO program—one of the most controversial in U.S. history. Image
Jun 13, 2025 19 tweets 5 min read
🚨 SHOCKING 🚨

1752: Britain made 11 days disappear from history:

Millions went to sleep on Sept 2...
Woke up on Sept 14.

But, the dark truth behind history's missing days hardly anyone knows about: 👇 Image Imagine waking up to find 11 days erased from your life.

No one knew what happened.

Confusion turned to chaos.

People rioted, fearing they had been robbed of their time.

This wasn’t fiction.
This was real.
Jun 12, 2025 17 tweets 5 min read
May 27 2020:

This man hired a secret charter flight to Alaska's forbidden zone.

Military radar had detected something massive 700ft underground.

His last diary entry:
"went to get water"

Then he disappeared forever.

The story the government doesn’t want you to know:🧵 Image In 1992

A U.S. geologist named Doug Mutschler heard whispers of a "black pyramid" buried under Alaska

Larger than the Great Pyramid of Giza

And allegedly discovered by accident during a classified military operation
He tried to investigate

What happened next was disturbing Image
Jun 9, 2025 20 tweets 5 min read
Everyone talks about great geniuses like Einstein, Edison, and Tesla.

But no one knows László Bíró.

• His name became a verb in 3 languages.
• His invention is used by 93% of humans.
• Yet he died with just $2,000 to his name.

The shocking story of incredible genius: Image László was a struggling journalist in Hungary.

He had one problem:

Fountain pens.

They smudged.
They leaked.
They were unreliable.

He spent his days taking notes, and every time his ink smeared, frustration grew.

Then he had an idea. Image
May 15, 2025 17 tweets 5 min read
May 27 2020:

This man hired a secret charter flight to Alaska's forbidden zone.

Military radar had detected something massive 700ft underground.

His last diary entry:
"went to get water"

Then he disappeared forever.

The story the government doesn’t want you to know:🧵 Image In 1992

A U.S. geologist named Doug Mutschler heard whispers of a "black pyramid" buried under Alaska

Larger than the Great Pyramid of Giza

And allegedly discovered by accident during a classified military operation
He tried to investigate

What happened next was disturbing Image