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TIL Americans find rapists more trustworthy than atheists
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TIL of the Lockheed bribery scandals. Starting in the 1950s, officials of Lockheed, the aerospace company, bribed many influential individuals including a Dutch prince, a Japanese mob boss and a Saudi Arabian arms dealer in order to negotiate favourable deals. The bribes were exposed in the 1970s.
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TIL in June, 2016 the Royal Canadian Mounted Police seized one kilogram of carfentanil shipped from China in a box labelled "printer accessories". The shipment contained 50 million lethal doses of the drug, more than enough to wipe out the entire population of the country.
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TIL in 1973 a Concorde aircraft prototype performed the longest observation of a total solar eclipse (74 minutes)
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TIL that research shows that over the last 25 years the difference in effectiveness between real drugs and placebos has narrowed and even more so in the US than anywhere else
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TIL that Janet Leigh, Marion Crane in Psycho, was so affected by the shower scene that she no longer took showers unless she absolutely had to. She would lock all doors and windows and leave the shower door open. She never realized until she watched the film “how vulnerable and defenseless one is”.