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TIL of "The Hole": a facility operated by Scientology that has reportedly held people against their will for months, humiliating them.

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rLx0 TIL in 2011 a Gurkha single-handedly held off 12 Taliban as they attacked his base. Alone on the roof, he fought ‘an onslaught of rocket-propelled grenades and AK-47s’. He fired over 400 rounds, launched 17 grenades and detonated a mine. After his gun failed, he threw his tripod to fend a man off.
d8oj7 TIL in 1970, an LSD group called the Brotherhood dropped 25,000 doses of LSD on revelers attending a three day Birthday Party for Jeaus Christ in Laguna Beach
1akp4 TIL on visitng Kiev after WW2, John Steinbeck wrote: "If the United States were completely destroyed from New York to Kansas, we would have about the area of destruction Ukraine has. If six million people were killed, not counting soldiers,... you would have an idea of the casualties of Ukraine."
OoKwX TIL The day Malcolm X was assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom, a dance was previously scheduled for 7p. The dance was allowed to happen as scheduled with the bullets still in the wall, completely compromising the crime scene.
bplp TIL that a case of mass hallucinations and insanity in a small French village in 1951 may have been caused by a secret CIA LSD experiment called Project Span