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TIL that the Stanford Prison Experiment, the infamous experiment that many psychological works reference, was actually mostly a fraud and that many of the participants were faking.

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YpGd7 TIL that NATO carried out airstrikes against Yugoslavia for 78 days from March 24, 1999 to June 10, 1999 and that the US codenamed the military operation "Operation Noble Anvil" despite its official codename "Operation Allied Force"
D4mJ TIL: When “Lose Yourself” won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, not only was Eminem not there to accept the award, he was asleep during the ceremony because he believed he would not win.
J1XR1 TIL George Lucas originally envisioned Indiana Jones as a nightclub going womanizer. But his writing partner nixed that and suggested making the Ark of the Covenant as the goal of Indiana's quest as his hematologist told him about it. Spielberg agreed to direct only after losing out on James Bond.
9YaNG TIL James Taylor's song "Country Road" was inspired by Somerset Street in Belmont, Massachusetts, a wooded road running adjacent to the land owned by McLean Hospital where Taylor had committed himself in 1965 to receive treatment for depression
ZpvG4 TIL about escheatment. Traced back in feudal times and still exists in modern times.