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TIL the male equivalent of a ballerina is a ballerino

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Lvxv TIL (or more so, remembered) that the US ARMY’s training manual says the “use of force (torture) is a poor technique, as it yields unreliable results, may damage subsequent collection efforts, and can induce the source to say whatever he thinks the interrogator wants to hear.”
JYpRk TIL that drug smugglers have SUCCESSFULLY used carrier pigeons to smuggle drugs. Wow.
DQ5Le TIL of Special Force, a 2003 Lebanese video game developed by Hezbollah, which recreates battles from the South Lebanon conflict from Hezbollah's POV. After being released in countries such as Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Bahrain, and the UAE, 8,000 copies were sold in one week
W7xm9 TIL about The Stroop effect, our tendency to experience difficulty naming a physical color when it is used to spell the name of a different color.
N7PZ1 TIL That the Cuban Missile Crisis began when a CIA operative noticed soccer fields on a Cuban Military Base. “Cubans play baseball, Russians play soccer”