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TIL researchers repeated 100 studies published in three top psychology journals, and got the same results only 36 times

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OAG6 TIL that the 1905 football season was so dangerous that 18 players died, prompting Teddy Roosevelt to form a committee that ended up legalizing the forward pass.
XE8GD TIL that fragile self-esteem is a core component of narcissism and personality disorders, conversely, unstable high self-esteem is actually another form of fragile self-esteem.
7r9aP TIL Michael Jackson's Super Bowl half time show was so successful that for the first time ever, a performance won higher ratings than the game.
6AjX TIL that the U.S. Secret Service cracked down on fake money being used as movie props after an incident in which $1 billion in prop money was blown up during the filming of “Rush Hour 2” in Las Vegas. Some of the bills fluttered into the hands of people who later spent them.
LQV7Q TIL about Avoidance Speech, a group of sociolinguistic phenomena in which a special restricted speech style must be used in the presence of or in reference to certain relatives