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TIL of Poto and Cabengo, two girls who were emotionally neglected by their family from birth and invented their own language as a result.

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yaJw TIL a CIA handbook taught torture methods to extract information from people without extracting fingernails and stressed on importance of psychological over physical torture, i.e. intense fear, deep exhaustion, solitary confinement and unbearable anxiety which destroy ones capacity to resist.
78x TIL the arrow in the Arabic FedEx logo points to the left
X0JXE TIL that chicken McNuggets (introduced nationwide only in 1983) come in 4 shapes: the bell, the bow-tie, the ball and the boot. McDonalds states "The 4 shapes we make Chicken McNuggets in was the perfect equilibrium of dipability and fun. 3 would’ve been too few. 5 would’ve been, like, wacky."
woA8W TIL about the Ray Mancini Vs Duk Koo Kim boxing match which ended in tragedy. Not only did Kim die of injuries sustained, but his mother and the referee to the fight later took their own lives. As a result of this match, the number of allowed boxing rounds was fixed at 12.
jE6v TIL Arizona tea gallon jugs are flood filled and squeezed so that it is full to the cap so when they purify it with heat even the cap is decontaminated