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TIL the U.S. Army illegally performed “psychological operations” to manipulate American senators into providing more troops and war funding – and when an officer tried to stop the operation, he was railroaded by military investigators.

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GAlRQ TIL the light we see from The Sun is technically more than 8 minutes old. Technically, because some stars are so far away and light only travels so fast, we are seeing light that is millions/billions of years old.
QJMLd TIL: Patients respond significantly better to placebo medications when told that they cost $1500 a pill.
d8lRQ TIL that when he was assassinated, Martin Luther King Jr. had a nearly 75% public disapproval rate
R8J6 TIL Back in the 80s there was a service called Video Mailbox which allowed movie rentals through the mail to customers who paid a monthly fee with no late fees where they could set up a queue, and that had almost every movie available on VHS
Oo6MR TIL the CIA, FBI, & other Govt agencies still use Polygraph tests for screening employees despite no supporting scientific evidence of their effectiveness and being legally banned in the hiring process of most jobs and as evidence in court rooms.