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TIL JFK’s Harvard Application Essay Only Has 5 Sentences

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DQ4j TIL There was a German Citizen who was kidnapped by the US Govt., tortured in Afghanistan for a few months and released into a desolate road in Albania when he was found innocent. All because his name sounded similar to a suspected terrorist.
N8W8 TIL that John R. Fox deliberately called for artillery fire on his own position, after his position was overrun, in order to defeat a German attack in the vicinity of Sommocolonia, northern Italy during World War II.
mdbE TIL that the 404 error code originated at the CERN labs in Switzerland, where a physical room numbered 404 housed the original WWW database.
pMxQ TIL: North Korea and the United States are the only countries that have their children pledge allegiance to the state in schools.
e04Xn TIL that a urologist who lied about performing procedures on 2 patients, resulting in a nearly seven-year delay in diagnosing cancer in one patient, was only suspended for 1 month