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TIL that the CCP used "Struggle sessions" whereby a victim was forced to endure public humiliation and forced to admit various crimes before a crowd of people who would verbally and physically abuse the victim until he or she confessed.

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M5Dm TIL Spielberg suggested Ron Howard (the director of Apollo 13) to use KC-135 - an airplane that could create 23 seconds of weightlessness for filming certain scenes. Those scenes were filmed in bursts of 25 seconds after flying 612 parabolas, adding up to a total of 3hrs 54mins of weightlessness.
KYy1w TIL John McTiernan, director of Die Hard, Predator, and The Hunt for Red October, served a year in federal prison for a wiretapping scandal around the awful movie Rollerball and he has not made a movie since 2003
R7dLw TIL that Emperor Akihito of Japan authored a scientific study of racoon poo
m1NVO TIL about transgenerational effects the Dutch famine of 1944. Children of pregnant women at this time are more likely to develop health issues like diabetes. Even further, their great grandchildren are also more likely to develop health issues (despite only being developing eggs during the famine).
KOGXR TIL that Francis Bellamy, famous for creating the United States pledge of allegiance, was “an early American democratic socialist” who "believed in the absolute separation of church and state" and did not include the phrase "under God" in his pledge.