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TIL Talking to yourself in the third person - a technique known as illeism - can improve your decision making and emotional stability

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LQ65m TIL NASA worked on the Toyota Prius to determine if the unintended acceleration problem from the late 2000s and early 2010s was a problem with the car's computer systems.
oBbnR TIL hundreds of thousands of people have, in fact, gotten away with murder. Based on UCR data, the US currently has 250,000 unsolved murders, a number that increases by about 6,000 each year. With a murder solve rate of about 62%, that means 38% of the time murderers walk away scot-free.
kJ4Q1 TIL that George Martin had planned for the Beatles to record their first album "Please Please Me" as a live album at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, even promoting the idea during an NME interview. The idea was scrapped after Martin visited the club and found it to be unsuitable for recording.
EN7d TIL There is a database dedicated to tracking every bomb ever dropped by the United States. So far the Theater History of Operations Reports (THOR) details nearly 15 million bombing missions ranging from WWI to Vietnam.
mxJKp TIL that a man named Eliot Curtis volunteered to repair an Analog Modular Instrument at Cal State University. Unknowingly though, while cleaning it he touched some residue that happened to be LSD and then he tripped for nine hours.