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TIL: Powdered milk is used as a prop on film industry to resemble cocaine, yes it’s snort it too.

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J85Q TIL a CIA handbook taught torture methods, and stressed the importance of psychological over physical torture. The threat of inflicting pain triggered fears more damaging than the pain itself, because people often underestimated their capacity to withstand pain.
DQdVr TIL about a star called BPM 37093, also known as the "Crystal Star". Located 50 light-years away in the constellation Centaurus, it's essentially a giant diamond of 10 billion trillion trillion carats
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