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TIL, In 2008 an 80 year old retired Green Beret received a court-martial from Chapter XXXIII of the Special Forces Association after he shot an intruder in the head with a .22 pistol. The reason for the court-martial: The intruder survived, so he should have used a bigger gun.

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78kAM TIL The music of Nine Inch Nails has reportedly been used by the U.S. military as music torture to break down the resolve of detainees. Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails objected to this and stated "It's difficult for me to imagine anything more profoundly insulting, demeaning and enraging"
D1X1v TIL the origins and history of the 'New York Greek coffee cup' seen in a lot of tv shows/movies
YbMW TIL: In 1962, an author named Kerry Wendell Thornley published a book called The Idle Warriors, which has the historical distinction of being the only book written about Lee Harvey Oswald before Kennedy’s assassination in 1963.
4deg TIL the upside-down ketchup bottle earned its inventor 13 million dollars.
Wk1dL TIL the reason coffee and tea were originally served on saucers was so you could pour the hot drink into the saucer, thus cooling it faster, and drink from it. This practice was used as a metaphor by G. Washington to T. Jefferson for why the US has a Senate.