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TIL of the Palm Dog Award, an award at the Cannes Film Festival given to the best canine performance.

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0dPR TIL a prisoner was kept in a 9x7 cell w/no light, clock, or calendar. If he left his cell, he was fitted with goggles and headphones. He started having tics and unusual contortions of his body. He became convinced his lawyers were part of an interrogation program and his captors were protectors.
kVrW TIL Charles Rigoulot a french weightlifter was jailed for hitting a Nazi gaurd, but broke out of his jail cell by bending the bars. He allowed other prisoners to escape as well. Then beat the guard who jailed him.
aGGZ TIL of Witold Pilecki, a Polish soldier who volunteered to be caught and sent to Auschwitz so that he could report on the atrocities occurring there. After 2 ½ years as a prisoner, he escaped.
YyB TIL Tom Arnold’s sister used to be the biggest drug dealer in the United States. Called the “Meth Queen”
oNBE TIL In 1674, Manhattan was traded from the Dutch to the English for Run Island, an island in Indonesia which is now nearly uninhabited.