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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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v1mYx TIL South Africa developed nukes and voluntarily dismantled them. It's the only country in history to do this.
1aJL8 TIL A 27 year old Scotsman survived 382 days without eating
aob9 TIL the Japanese call their currency “en”. The reason it’s “yen” in English is because early Japanese-English dictionary compliers didn’t know that the pronunciation had changed.
MrA TIL The London Olympic Village is providing a record 150,000 condoms to this year’s 10,490 athletes.
NVmE TIL that during the Battle off Samar, a single American destroyer charged forward against a huge Japanese force. The ship did so much damage to the Japanese that when she sank, a passing Japanese ship saluted the sinking vessel.