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TIL that Diesel therapy is a form of punishment in which prisoners are shackled and then transported for days or weeks. It has been described as “the cruelest aspect of being a federal inmate.”

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Y7XGr TIL in 1974 Whitey Bulger and an accomplice set fire to an elementary school to intimidate a judge that mandated a plan to desegregate schools in Boston by busing. A year later he threw a Molotov cocktail into JFK's birthplace in retaliation of Sen. Ted Kennedy supporting Boston school desegregating
M7D0a TIL the most common World Series matchup not involving the New York Yankees is the Athletics and the Giants, who have met 4 times. Despite both currently playing in the San Francisco Bay area, three of those matchups were from when they played in Philadelphia and New York.
dDW57 TIL that Ayn Rand interviewed Oppenheimer twice in 1946 after being hired to write a screenplay on the creation of the atomic bomb, and she later based one of Atlas Shrugged's characters on him.