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TIL about Project 100,000, a controversial 1960s program by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) to recruit soldiers who would previously have been below military mental or medical standards.

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ADdP4 TIL: conceptual and non-conceptual mental states. Conceptual is beliefs that shape your current world view. Non-conceptual state can represent the world even though the bearer of those mental states need not possess the concepts required to specify their content.
ZpYM4 TIL People brought their kids to watch Alien in the theaters (many apparently thinking it was going to be something more akin to Star Wars)
b9E6Z TIL Pee Wee Herman got arrested for rubbing one out in a movie theater
w7p6 TIL that the Pitcairn Islands, a British Overseas Territory with a population of 56, has legalised same-sex marriage, despite not having a single same-sex couple on the island.
lor4K TIL that the 2015 Internet phenomenon "The Dress" revealed differences in human colour perception, which have been the subject of ongoing scientific investigations into neuroscience and vision science