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TIL about white torture. A person is isolated in a all white room and given only white food to strip them of their identity.

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J1MyB TIL Iguanas have a so-called “third eye” on the top of their heads. Known as the parietal eye, it looks like a pale scale and can't discern shapes or color—but does sense light and movement, helping iguanas anticipate predatory birds from above.
R5BZ8 TIL that the 1904 Olympics were originally awarded to Chicago. But St. Louis, which was hosting the World’s Fair that year, threatened to undermine the Olympics with an even bigger sports competition. Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics, then moved the games to St. Louis.
W77KA TIL between the time he murdered his wife and son and the time he killed himself, pro wrestler Chris Benoit attempted to reschedule his flight from Atlanta to Texas so he could perform at that weekend's WWE pay-per-view, where he was scheduled to face CM Punk for the ECW Championship.
OGnbR TIL about the 100-Man Kumite, a martial arts challenge wherein a challenger endures 100 consecutive sparring matches against fighters of equal or higher rank. Since 1965 there have only been 30 total victors, the last being in 2020.
YpMAA TIL that two men from Indiana were wrongfully convicted in a 1996 armed robbery because of a false statement from an informant who had sex with the lead detective who set them up. 20 years later, they were found innocent and one of them received $4.9 Million settlement.