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TIL that Grapple is simply just an apple soaked in Methyl Anthranilate (artifical grape flavoring).

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LK1v TIL that an Artificial Intelligence turned $20 into $11,000 by gambling
yvvv TIL the woman who sued McDonalds after spilling coffee in her lap actually deserved the settlement, and the media grossly molested the story in an urban legend and political narrative
xVR57 TIL that a VR psychology treatment that lets you talk to yourself by switching roles (being both the patient and the psychologist) can lead to detachment from habitual ways of thinking about personal problems. It allows you to treat yourself as you treat others.
wo89P TIL Barbara Eden spoke real Farsi when meeting Larry Hagman’s character in the first episode of I Dream of Jeannie, and her dialect was coached by a UCLA professor
WkwjX TIL that the first spy satellites would eject capsules of photographic film back to earth, which would then be caught mid-flight by aeroplanes and returned to ground for photos to be developed.