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TIL The Title Song ‘I Love You’ from the children’s show 'Barney’ is used by interrogators to convince suspects to feel that life is meaningless, and to give up information.

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6E7AZ TIL about the Demon Core, a 6.2 kilogram mass of plutonium. It was named as such after it claimed the lives of two scientists at Los Alamos Labratory in 1945/1946
GW4j TIL that a woman believed “crunch berries” in Cap'n crunch were actual fruit for years, and attempted to sue Pepsico when she found out they weren’t. The judge dismissed it as “common sense” knowledge.
gl5X TIL no one knows exactly how many Federal Laws are currently enacted in the United States.
9wrgB TIL That in the original Robocop movie the trauma team trying to save 'Alex Murphy' was comprised of a real ER trauma team from a Dallas hospital (where the movie was filmed). To add authenticity to the scene the team was allowed to ad-lib their dialogue,
pY778 TIL There is an ISO standard for brewing a cup of tea. Ireland objected to it