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TIL That the “point-and-call” method used by Japanese train employees reduces worker error rates by up to 85%

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m9lR TIL in 1990, Americans were told Iraqi forces in Kuwait removed hundreds of babies from incubators and were thrown in the street or killed. The story was false and part of a PR firm’s contract to build up US public support for the invasion of Iraq. It was overwhelmingly successful.
D1VZp TIL that legendary director John Hughes ("Ferris Bueller's Day Off"; "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles") co-wrote the script for the kids' film "Beethoven" under the pseudonym Edmond Dantes
X0PvD TIL In the wake of the Second World War, the US occupied Iceland until 2006
ZQ4a TIL that most Icelandic people believe in elves or ‘hidden people’ and to this day they still stop construction work, if they hit a hidden people home.
VwjG TIL that in 2010 a british policeman drove an Ice cream van into the middle of a riot and played “ice-cream van” music in an attempt to calm the youths. The official report was, ‘humour defused the situation and the trouble stopped’.