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TIL after sentencing veteran Green Beret to a night in jail for violating his probation, same judge who is also a vet learned what he was going through after reading his paperwork stayed overnight in the cell with him to be there for him

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l7Om7 TIL Walt Disney won 4 Oscars at the 1953 Academy Awards; the most by an individual in a single year.
e04Gg TIL Pakistan plans to build an amusement park on the land formerly occupied by Osama bin Laden's compound
b9x1Z TIL that with a budget of 11 billion dollars the NYPD would be the 27th highest budgeted military in the world
G4w4 TIL Tom Hardy (Bane) said that the most difficult parts of the The Dark Knight Rises to shoot were the fight scenes. Not because of the physicality of them, but because he was such a huge Batman fan growing up that he said “it felt like I was beating up my childhood hero.”
78L9Z TIL the Grand Mosque of Paris provided sanctuary to hundreds of Jews by hiding them within its complex, issuing them fake Muslim ID documents to help them escape detection by Nazis