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TIL Aquafina and Dasani are nothing more than tap water.

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QJ7B9 TIL Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is getting less and less effective for depression over time
4Rjb TIL that the White House increased the numbers of signatures necessary for a petition to get a response after a petition for an American Death Star got enough signatures
KOx9w TIL Centenarians tend to be small people, even allowing for shrinkage & secular growth. Okinawans have the greatest concentration of them, 500/million, the average male of which is just 148.3 cm (4'10½") & female 138.8 cm (4'6 1/2½").
JRB1 TIL Polygraph tests are only ~61% accurate, yet they can still be used as evidence in court in many places.
va4x TIL The US army once played a $250 million war game - a lone general defeated the US army in one day. Subsequently the rules were changed to make it impossible for the US to lose.