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TIL the song the “Electric Slide” is about a vibrator

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JRB1 TIL Polygraph tests are only ~61% accurate, yet they can still be used as evidence in court in many places.
GR4 TIL Plato’s real name was Aristocles, ‘Plato’ was a nickname (roughly 'the broad’) derived from the width of his shoulders.
l77jr TIL that about one in 2,000 people in the UK is a carrier of variant CJD, or "mad cow" disease, linked to eating contaminated beef. Relatively few people who catch the infectious agent develop symptoms and it's unknown if they can transmit it to others.
D1Xrr TIL that Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book was written for St. Nicholas Magazine, a publication for children edited by Mary Mapes Dodge. Dodge, author of Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates, asked Kipling to contribute something and although he'd never written for children before, he said he'd try.
XREP TIL that during Pablo Escobar’s “career” it is estimated that 80% of the cocaine entering the U.S. was supplied by him and Escobar was considered one of the richest men in the world during that time.