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TIL Looney Tunes was created to promote Warner Brother's music catalog in the 1930s. That's why it's "Tunes" and not "Toons

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BrVmk TIL that in the 1950s, psychologist Milton Rokeach performed an experiment in which three men with Messianic delusions lived together for two years. He wanted to study how they would reconcile their delusions with the existence of two others with the same irrational belief.
p8g6N TIL of the Island of Discussion, a tiny Scottish island. Locals involved in disputes would be taken there with some cheese and whisky, and just left on the island until they'd reached a mutual agreement
pY0gb TIL individual brain size can vary almost twofold among typically developing humans
b6RJ0 TIL that King Henry VIII was buried next to Jane Seymour; she was his third wife and the mother of his only son. His only son was King Edward VI, and King Edward VI died before having any children.
ADwZg TIL Liv Tyler was the product of an affair between her mom, BeBe Buell, and Steven Tyler, during a time when Buell had a live-in relationship with another musician, Todd Rundgren. Liv was born Liv Rundgren and didn't find out until she was 10 years old that Tyler was her real father.