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TIL that the TARDIS materialisation sound is actually a house key scraping along a piano wire

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QJX1M TIL that in the 60s, the CIA sponsored a Harvard study where an undergraduate student was humiliated and subjected to "brutalizing psychological experiments". The student who had the worse reaction to the experiment was Ted Kaczynski who later became the Unabomber.
j6Q4E TIL Flight Attendants don’t get paid a full wage for the boarding process, some don’t get paid at all. AirCanada strike is exposing me to the unfair world for flight employees!
5bMP TIL an intersex athlete representing Poland won the 100 meter dash gold medal in the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles and her “sexually ambiguous genitalia” (due to a chromosomal disorder known as mosaicism) was not discovered until the autopsy following her 1980 murder in Cleveland.
m76P TIL that Guantanamo Bay has a few fast food restaurants on base, and prisoners who cooperate in interrogations have been given McDonald’s Happy Meals as rewards
vyD8 TIL that some Buddhists see the movie “Groundhog Day” as a modern representation of their religion.