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TIL: There was a study on in China that explores why the 317 million female gamers there made otome (romance) games popular. The results show it was due to strong parasocial interactions led to more romantic feelings towards the fictional characters among under 30 yo females.
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TIL: The Trojan Ballistics Suit of Armor was a planned exoskeleton suit inspired by the MJOLNIR armor from the Halo series for Canadian soldiers featured on the Discovery Channel. Features included wrist sheaths and in suit morphine injections. The inventor died in a car crash before he finished it.
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TIL: Rufus Choate was one of the greatest American lawyer of the 1800s, arguing over a thousand cases and pioneered the method of arousing jury sympathy. One of his famous cases is when he convinced a jury that the accused cut the throat of his lover while sleepwalking and was therefore not guilty.
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TIL: George Bredig escaped the Nazi regime when Princeton offered him a job in 1940. Scientists and professors who did not swear an oath to the regime were fired. He managed to save his research and made significant contributions to electro chemistry. The Nazis lost 26% of their university chemists.
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[WP] Every election, the loser will be gaslit into thinking they won and be placed in a fake Oval office and have hired actors such around them playing a role similar to a Truman Show situation. Hollywood tries to keep up the façade as ratings soar through the roof.
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[WP] It is revealed that the saying "you only truly die when everyone forgets about you" is true and you are placed in a waiting room for the afterlife till then. The waiting room is filled with famous figures and the one really bad Sumerian tailor.
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[WP] Supervillains, after a great tragedy/assault on their nation's citizenry by a hostile nation, band together to provide aid and support in a rare show of patriotism. They are genuine in their actions and pride, but the public and superheroes are utterly confused.
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[WP] A foreign nation's top seductress is sent to seduce a single man who holds all the secrets of his nation's IT infrastructure. However, she quickly discovers why his file reads as single. He has an inanimate doll as his girlfriend he talks to. This is her hardest mission yet.
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