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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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oB1l7 TIL that Joker director Todd Phillips made a documentary about violent punk rocker GG Allin and asked Allin's friend, the incarcerated serial killer clown John Wayne Gacy, to paint the poster art. Gacy agreed but only if Philips sent a compromising photo of himself, to which Philips obliged.
D1xle TIL That Sir Winston Churchill, at the hight of the Beatlemania, ended his parliamentary career that had begun before the Wright brothers' pioneering flight and had ended in an age when supersonic aircraft could deliver nuclear weapons. (1900-1964)
N7KnN TIL that listening to metal and it's subgenres has been found to help relieve stress and decrease hostility, according to a study by the University of Queensland in 2015
oBwQr TIL that "Five-O" being slang for "police" was inspired by the TV show "Hawaii Five-0" (and not the other way around). "Hawaii Five-0" was named that in honor of Hawaii being the 50th state to join the United States
VZY4 TIL only 3 films have swept the “Big Five” Academy Awards for Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay: It Happened One Night (1934), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), and The Silence of the Lambs (1991)