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TIL the CIA uses rectal feeding as a torture tactic, which can result in anal fissures, chronic hemorrhoids and symptomatic rectal prolapse

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v1jK7 TIL that a Concorde supersonic airliner was once painted bright blue in Pepsi livery to promote the soda company's new logo. It had to slow down in flight so that the blue paint didn't overheat from air friction.
VVnp TIL Carl Sagan sued Apple Computer in 1994. Apple used ‘Carl Sagan’ as an internal code for the Power Macintosh 7100. Apple lost and renamed it 'BHA’, for Butt Head Astronomer. Sagan sued again, and lost.
rLN4 TIL in the 1986 movie “Troll”, a character named Harry Potter Jr. attempts to learn magic from a woman who lives above him who’s secretly a witch
mVdO TIL a woman was once fined and faced jail time for reporting her rape. The cops did not believe her until her rapist was caught raping another woman and had pictures of him raping the earlier victim
ANoka TIL that in ‘98 J.J. Abrams and the director of Cloverfield created a TV show about a young woman going to college called Felicity. It lasted four seasons and ends with a five-episode long time travel arc.