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TIL the CIA used songs like Hit Me Baby One More time and Bye Bye Bye as part of their torture methods

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YpGZG TIL Leonardo da Vinci observed a relationship between the areas of tree trunks and branches that has been validated by current studies of many species, and has multiple theories explaining the relationship
j6ZwM TIL Snooker was invented in India
78OY7 TIL: Over 50,000 Christians have been killed in Nigeria for their religion since 2009 (as of March 23)
p85GG TIL about the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs. It's not only responsible for the exploration of outer space, but is also the bureau that will start communication with aliens if some would visit our planet.
wd7J TIL engineers building a bridge between Germany and Switzerland found that when the two halves met their elevations differed by 54 cm. Germany bases sea level on the North Sea, and Switzerland by the Mediterranean; someone messed up the correction, doubling it instead of cancelling it out.