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TIL Eminem, Britney Spears, Sesame Street, and Barney's music among others were used by the CIA to help psychologically torture prisoners

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OGZ54 TIL about an ancient African tradition where a murderer was punished by an assassin running into him with a spear which had meat on it. The murderer kept his mouth open. The murder victim's family decides if the murderer is killed by the spear or fed the meat (forgiven)
neRnd TIL that German Chocolate Cake is not from Germany, but named for it's creator, Sam German.
4XlAw TIL John Cena is author of a children's book and intends to write more.
oBQe7 TIL That the first life on earth was not bacteria or eukaryotes but something called LUCA that came around 4 billion years ago. It was the ultimate ancestor of every gene of every bit of life on earth.
LQ1JV TIL that the voice of the grinch and narrator in the original how the grinch stole Christmas special was Boris Karloff, a horror actor best known for playing Frankenstein and the Mummy in the Universal monster movies.