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TIL of Abu Zubaydah, a detainee of Guantanamo Bay for over 20 years. He has never been charged and has been tortured, including being waterboarded 83 times in one month

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QNyaa TIL that, to get people to read them, authors of light novels put the story's synopsis into the title itself. So there are titles like "The World’s Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat"
awVVZ TIL Pennsylvania and Connecticut went to war three times over the area that is now Scranton, Pennsylvania
vG7B TIL that EA sent out brass knuckles to the gamewriters of the Godfather II before realizing that they were illegal in most of the states they sent them to, including California, where EA is based.
J1PGj TIL about the “other 9/11”, the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, which was supported by the CIA.
78JpZ TIL that the reason why Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer doesn’t appear in more movies is because unlike the other reindeer, Rudolph is copyrighted by a Connecticut-based company. He was created by Robert L. May in 1939, for a story for a coloring book, which turned out to be a huge success.