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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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eQ6L TIL that in 1938, 18-year-old Korean Yang Kyoungjong was conscripted by Japan to fight against the USSR. In 1939 he was captured by the Soviets and sent to fight against the Germans. He was then captured by the Nazis and sent to fight on D-Day only to be captured by the Americans.
QJJ09 TIL people are finding razor blades hidden inside their walls because it was once common to throw used shaving blades thorough a slot at the back of medicine cabinets
WkegN TIL: about The Axis of Evil, an anomaly in astronomical observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background that gives the location of Earth a greater significance than expected by chance. It appears to suggest that our solar system is the center of the entire universe.
pm6e TIL the Gravity Probe B has the smoothest sphere ever made. If the GP-B gyroscope was enlarged to the size of Earth, the tallest mountain would be only 8 feet high.
8aYLK TIL that the most decorated regiment during WW2 were the Japanese Americans despite having their families locked up in concentration camps, fighting in major campaigns in Northern France, Italy, and Germany