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TIL that the United States used the Barney "I love you, you love me" theme song to torture Iraqi prisoners in Guantanamo Bay.

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mxnrM TIL that Adam Jones, the guitarist for Tool, is also a sculptor, designer and makeup artist who worked on blockbuster films like Jurassic Park, Terminator 2 and Dances With Wolves.
5N5R TIL: Some of the sounds of the dinosaurs in Jurassic World were made from the slowed down version of tortoises having sex.
mZdO TIL Spotify pays almost 70% of its revenue to rights holders and has paid out over $500 million in royalties in just 3 years.
9YPpQ TIL: Lottie Williams is the only person to have been hit by re-entering space debris. She was walking through a park in Tulsa Oklahoma in Jan 1997 at 3:30 am and felt a tapping on her shoulder. It was a piece of the fuel tank of a Delta II rocket launched in 1996. She was unhurt.
OG554 TIL about Mercy dog’s. In WWI and later wars, these dogs were trained to give aid or comfort dying soldiers on battlefields after confrontations.