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TIL turning the subtitles on for kids' TV massively improves their reading

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mxj8y TIL that The Who’s Roger Daltrey is allergic to cannabis, which affects his singing. On one occasion he threatened to stop a show due to people smoking, advising them to “stick it up your fuckin’ ass.”
GAP9Q TIL In 2005, the CIA destroyed over 90 video tapes showing the torture of two Al-Qaeda suspects at a black site in Thailand in 2002. In 2010, the Justice Department declined to charge the Chief of the Directorate of Operations (Jose Rodriguez) for ordering the destruction of the tapes.
ANm7x TIL that Justin Timberlake sung on "No Sex for Ben" by The Rapture, but it never got approval
R7Ml1 TIL on the Lewis and Clark expedition in order to speak to a indian tribe they spoke English to a man who knew French that spoke to a man who knew French and Hidatsa so he told his wife Sacagawea who knew Hidatsa and Shoshone then she would tell the tribes slave who knew Shoshone and Salishan.
e0wQ5 TIL that in January the Department of Labor adopted a new test for unpaid internships to require that the employer get “no immediate advantage” from the activities of the intern