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TIL *NSYNC is spelled with the last letters of the band members’ first names.

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rREQw TIL Prison Guards once handcuffed an inmates hands above his head outside in 100+ degree weather, took his clothes so he would receive more intense sun burns and refused to give him any water for 7 hours. The courts ruled that what the guards had done wasn't cruel or unusual punishment.
G7G TIL Seth Rogen was only 22, at the time of shooting “The Forty Year Old Virgin”,he convincingly played a 30-something character.
d1Bj TIL Bam Margera wanted Mike Tyson to bite off part of his ear for a stunt during the filming of Jackass 3. Paramount even contacted Tyson and asked, to which Tyson got offended and said “no”.
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