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TIL Skinny Puppy, a Canadian band sent a bill to the US military requesting $666,000 in royalties for playing their music as torture for Guantanamo Bay's prisoners.

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Yp4XB TIL that Leonard Cohen wrote eighty verses for Hallelujah, only four of which were in the final recording
DBjp TIL the Civil War had Nazi-like prison camps. In one of the worst, a one legged man, trying to escape being victimized by other prisoners, was shot in the face and chest, only to lay outside the prison walls suffering until he died the next day.
gkN7 TIL of Roger Sherman, the only man who signed all four of the great state papers of the United States (the Continental Association, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution)
wBJ7 TIL that there are 3000 cities with worse lead levels in their water supply than Flint, MI
yVAWl TIL the only survivor of a mid-air collision between 2 planes over Amur Oblast (that killed her husband & 36 others) fell 5,220 meters while holding onto a piece of the plane. After waiting 2 days in the woods with fractures to her arms, ribs & spine, she began to walk on the 3rd & found rescuers.