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TIL that torture techniques in Guantanamo Bay have been inspired from television shows specifically the series 24 starring Kiefer Sutherland

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V7b8 TIL: Harry Truman, before he became the President, tried to enlist in the Army. He was refused after an eye chart test determined him having 20/400 vision in the left eye (past the standard for legal blindness). He took the test a second time after memorizing the eye chart and got enlisted.
wxZM TIL while writing Hot Fuzz Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright referred to the supermarket manager, Simon Skinner as being played by a “Timothy Dalton type” actor before thinking to ask Dalton himself to be in the film. To their surprise Dalton had loved Shaun of the Dead and signed on for the role.
w9M8 TIL of Anekantavada, the belief that truth and reality are perceived differently from different points of view, and no single point of view is the complete truth, yet taken together they comprise the complete truth
KOBea TIL a week after The Shining premiered in theaters, director Stanley Kubrick cut a final scene in a hospital, where Wendy and Danny learn that Jack's body could not be found. The scene was subsequently physically cut out of prints by projectionists and returned to the studio by order of Warner Bros.
6EVVm TIL: 72 year old US Senator John Stennis of Mississippi was mugged and shot twice in front of his home in 1973. Despite being severely wounded he managed to walk into his home and call an ambulance. He would live another 22 years