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TIL of Michael Durant, who was taken prisoner in Mogadishu in 1993. He was tortured for 11 days until he heard a helicopter playing “Hell’s Bells” by AC/DC. His superiors knew it was his favorite song, so they had rigged a helicopter with a loudspeaker and flown over the city looking for him.

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neW TIL that the Body Mass Index (BMI) was created for a social statistics experiment, and was never intended to be an indicator of health.
DQYWD TIL Limp Bizkit was the last band to play on top of the World Trade Center in September 2000.
VNb8 TIL that the Bible has a story about a woman lusting after men “whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses”
LkyO0 TIL P.T. Barnum purchased a female slave in 1835 that he billed in a sideshow attraction as the slave that raised George Washington, this would have made her about 160 years old
wo0d6 TIL that Victor Miller who wrote the screenplay for the original 1980 horror movie Friday the 13th hasn't watched any of the sequels, because he was upset that the franchise producers made Jason into the killer instead of it being his mother like in the original.