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TIL Guantanamo guards beat a prisoner into brain injuries who later turned out to be an undercover guard who was taking part in a training exercise

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BrkjD TIL of the Colt clan incest case - an Australian family discovered in 2012, engaged in four generations of incest beginning in the 1970s. The family grew to 40 members. The members' true identities remain unknown to the public.
VB1lB TIL that the director of ‘American Psycho’ is the daughter of the guy who played Charlie Farquharson on ‘Hee Haw’
kkR5 TIL that after being rejected by 20 publishers, Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi classic Dune was finally picked up by Chilton Books. The publisher was previously known only for those big car repair manuals sold in auto parts stores.
1jYd TIL The USA dropped 26,171 bombs in 2016. Thats about 3 bombs every hour for 24 hours a day…
neLM7 TIL of the Shard of Harry. In the MMO Asheron's Call, a group of players defended a shard that needed to be destroyed for the game to progress and killed any player that attempted to do that. Eventually the developers tried to defeat the defenders with their own characters. They were also killed.