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TIL after a mother replaced the batteries in an "Elmo Knows Your Name" doll for her son James, the doll began saying "Kill James". Fisher Price, the maker of the doll, said they would issue a voucher to replace it and examine the toy to figure out how that happened.

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VBwYZ Today I learned Tabula rasa (blank slate) is the theory that individuals are born without built-in mental content and therefore all knowledge comes from experience or perception, which is in direct contrast to Innatism which is the idea that the mind is born with ideas, knowledge, and beliefs.
yGpp TIL The first female journalist to interview a U.S. President did so by sitting on John Q. Adams’ clothes while he swam nude in the Potomac forcing him to do the interview.
kvZ5 TIL Thomas Silverstein has been in solitary confinement for ~29 years, which is longer than any other prisoner in the Bureau of Prisons.
yXKJ TIL Stanley Kubrick fooled the MPAA into thinking that the blood flowing out of the elevator in The Shining was just “rusty water”
MeQNV TIL Silicone oil leaches out of remote control buttons and gradually makes the controller less responsive