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TIL in WW2, a German interrogator realised the best way to get information from prisoners was through kindness

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lbo1 TIL at the end of the 2002 Spider-Man game Peter Parker, after kissing Mary Jane, speaks to the player and says “Looks like you’re done here. Go outside and play”.
MejLA TIL Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was responsible for the creation of the PG-13 rating
NXmMe TIL that WordStar was once the dominant word processor, in part because of the lack of copy protection. Many books on how to use WordStar became best sellers. Their authors knew that they were really selling manuals for what might have been the world's most pirated software.
v1E4K TIL: Scientists used Sunflowers near Chernobyl after the 1986 nuclear accident, to extract radioactive cesium from contaminated ponds nearby. Then again in 2011 at Fukushima to extract radiation from the nearby communities.
N70QJ TIL rock star success was once highly regional. In June 1976 Bob Seger played to 78,000 fans in Detroit, only to play to less than 1,000 in Chicago the very next day