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TIL that teleportation has actually successfully been done on small scales

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x6J6w TIL that soldiers in WWI wore medieval body armor (which hadn't been used for 400 years) to protect themselves during close-quarters trench warfare.
neKGr TIL that the CCP used "Struggle sessions" whereby a victim was forced to endure public humiliation and forced to admit various crimes before a crowd of people who would verbally and physically abuse the victim until he or she confessed.
b6MV4 TIL actress Georgia Tennant is the daughter of the 5th Doctor Who, Peter Davison, and the wife of 10th Doctor Who, David Tennant.
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