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TIL John McCain was subjected to months of torture. Then after losing 50 Lbs and recieving little medical treatment, he was locked in solitary for 2 years. When he was done he was offered release, but refused unless all of his fellow POW’s were also released.

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4X7Mw TIL That, in 1956, US Navy Ensign Thomas W, Attridge, while conducting a weapons test on his Gruman F-11 Tiger, aciidentally shot himself down when he flew his plane through cannon shells he had fired.
DePV TIL applications for Mars One, the first manned mission to Mars will be accepted soon.
m5WP TIL: The first item sold on ebay was a broken laser pointer, and when asked in an email by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar if he was aware that the laser pointer was broken, the buyer replied that “I’m a collector of broken laser pointers.”
m1v8v TIL Snoop Dogg wanted to rent the country of Liechtenstein for 1 day for his song clip, but could not rent the country because he reported late to the country
mxN0P TIL - Most of the smoke billowing up from a space shuttle launch is not exhaust. It is water vapor from the pool of water under the shuttle designed to absorb the acoustic shock waves that could otherwise tear the shuttle apart.