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TIL the total population of the world’s great whales is worth over $1 trillion, largely due to the carbon they capture and the ecosystems they support, according to the IMF

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dDAVQ TIL During the Iran/Contra scandal, US President Ronald Reagan’s White House aides thought he was “Inattentive and Inept” and that Article 25 needed to be considered as a way to remove him from office.
NXe6Q TIL Ondine’s curse occurs when a part of your brain is injured causing you to lose the subconscious drive to breathe
NDP1 TIL during the production of Star Wars, Peter Cushing found Grand Moff Tarkin’s boots, furnished by the wardrobe department, to be very uncomfortable. George Lucas agreed to limit shots where Cushing’s feet would be visible, allowing him to wear his own slippers.
D47r TIL Jeremy Clarkson’s fondness for wearing jeans has been blamed by some for the decline in sales of denim in the mid-1990s, particularly Levi’s, because of their being associated with middle aged men. This is known as the “Jeremy Clarkson Effect”.
J85Q TIL a CIA handbook taught torture methods, and stressed the importance of psychological over physical torture. The threat of inflicting pain triggered fears more damaging than the pain itself, because people often underestimated their capacity to withstand pain.