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TIL Spanish Civil War jail cells were built like 3-D modern art paintings in order to torture prisoners

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b9dW9 Today I learned Steve McQueen was one of the pallbearers at Bruce Lee's funeral.
W7Q78 Til of E Henry Knoche, A former star college tennis and basketball athlete, he asked for a job with the CIA with no qualifications other than his trophies, 2 years with the navy during WW2 and speaking Russian and an obscure Chinese dialect. When he retired in 1977 he was acting director of the CIA
6EGlX TIL that in Inglorious Basterds, during the scene where Brad Pitt and his team pose as Italian film makers, the name Eli Roth’s character takes: Antonio Margheriti, is actually one of Quentin Tarantino’s favourite spaghetti Western director’s name.
bJOQ TIL Saturday Night Live was created because in 1974 Johnny Carson petitioned NBC for more time off.
4kEkR TIL that - largely from 1400s onwards - parts of India have had centuries of African rulers. Mainly from East Africa, they rose from merchants, pirates, bodyguards and even slaves to Kings, Admirals, Generals and ruled some princely states well into the 1940s...