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TIL adding the word ‘because’ to a sentence, followed by any reasoning, will make people tend to comply to what you want them to, no matter how lame the reason is.

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5wK8 TIL that Valve never expected “the cake is a lie” joke to become as popular as it did. They expected a metal hoop that roles past the player during the ending cutscene named “Hoopy the Hoop” would become the most well known joke in Portal. Hoopy even reappears in Portal 2.
Bg0x TIL Kim Jong-Il once rounded up all the short people in Pyongyang and sent them away to uninhabited islands “to end their ‘substandard’ genes from repeating in a new generation”.
Wk8EN TIL In Morocco in 1914 , an invading French force took a Berber encampment by surprise, kidnapping two of the Berber leader's wives. The Berbers counterattacked and annihilated the French force, and later exchanged the dead body of the French leader for the two wives
5YDL9 TIL that Air Bud, about a dog who plays basketball, has 13 sequels. In the last one, 'Super Buddies', Bud's 5 puppies acquire magic rings that grant them superpowers and use them to defeat the warlord Commander Drex from the planet Inspiron
MeRbA TIL Children develop more creativity, critical thinking, collaboration and communication skills when they throw away Lego instructions and build things together with others using their own imagination. Routine, manual jobs are increasingly automated, whereas the 'new work' is non-routine cognitive