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TIL that The Ben Franklin effect is a proposed psychological phenomenon stating that when we do a person a favor, we tend to like them more as a result. This is because we justify our actions to ourselves that we did them a favor because we liked them.

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lrG7 Til one man was almost solely responsible for the creation of NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, LFO, O-town, and the career of Aaron Carter. He died last year in prison serving a 25 year sentence for money laundering.
WEMN TIL In her early career, Margaret Thatcher helped develop technology to increase the air in ice cream, so producers could sell the same volume containers for lower cost.
MeA87 TIL that The Imp of the Perverse is a metaphor for the urge to do exactly the wrong thing in a given situation for the sole reason that it is possible for wrong to be done. The impulse is compared to an imp (a small demon) which leads an otherwise decent person into mischief.
7rGpr TIL During WWII, the British housed captured Nazi generals in country estates which were secretly bugged. They were invited to garden parties, lunches at the Strand in central London and were each given servants. It was so extravagant that an outraged Churchill ordered the "pampering" to stop
p4j4 TIL a bomb went off in a commercial airliner, blowing it into several pieces and fell for 3 minutes before crashing on a frozen mountain top. One woman survied and now holds the Guinness World Record for the highest fall survived without a parachute, at 33,330 feet.