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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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9wpV7 TIL JFK experienced chronic back pain. He underwent 4 back operations, including a discectomy, an instrumentation and fusion, and 2 minor surgeries that failed to improve his pain.
B4Je TIL that while he was writing the score for The Last Samurai, Hans Zimmer felt that his knowledge of Japanese music was very limited even after doing extensive research. When he took what he had written to Japan for feedback he was shocked when he was asked how he knew so much about Japanese music.
gpdL TIL that before X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) began filming. Patrick Stewart informed director Bryan Singer that he would be willing to play Mystique instead of Jennifer Lawrence. He said: “I am so ready to be naked, painted blue, and the world is ready for it too.”
oBvB8 TIL the only reason Hunter S. Thompson lost the election for sheriff of Pitkin County, Colorado was because the Republican and Democratic parties conspired together to maintain their oligopoly on government.
6Mkm TIL that the Oxford linguistic philosopher J. L. Austin made the claim that although a double negative in English implies a positive meaning, there is no language in which a double positive implies a negative. To which Sidney Morgenbesser responded in a dismissive tone, “Yeah, yeah.”