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TIL that the compliance-gaining technique of adding “but you are free to refuse” after a verbal request has been found to double your chances of getting what you want.

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D55p TIL In 1988, the DEA’s Administrative Law Judge, Francis Young, concluded: “In strict medical terms marijuana is far safer than many foods we commonly consume…”
6K4w TIL : A merchant was sentenced to face a lion in the arena when he was caught selling fake jewels to the Empress, when the cage opened however a chicken walked out, the Emperor then proclaimed that “He practiced deceit and then had it practiced on him”.The merchant was allowed to go home then.
gMvvb TIL Nestlé pays $524 yearly on an expired permit to pump and bottle about 30 million gallons of water from California, even during droughts. To explain this, a supervisor claimed that the Forest Service didn't have the money for a proper review of the permit; he later became a consultant for Nestlé.
94LD TIL during the Great Potato Famine, the Ottoman Empire tried to send money and ships full of food to Ireland, but were blocked by the British and instead snuck into Dublin illegally to provide aid for the Irish.
j6rJM TIL of the lituya bay mega tsunami in 1950’s Alaska. The waves reached for a time a height of over 1,700 feet tall!