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TIL Sean Connery was originally supposed to be in Skyfall as Kincade

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J1rvm TIL about Sean Baker, a U.S. soldier who suffered a traumatic brain injury after being beaten during a training exercise when he volunteered to pose as a detainee at Guantanamo Bay. The Army initially denied their involvement, and then downplayed it. He was not allowed to sue.
g6JW TIL that many members of the infamous Japanese research Unit 731, who conducted human experiments on thousands of people in WWII, were granted immunity by the United States and were never convicted once the results of their experiments were handed over.
oRWEE TIL of the Sul Ross Desk, an attraction outside the college town of Alpine, Texas that is a teachers desk left abandoned by a group of Sul Ross State students on top of a mountain in 1979.
b90rj TIL John Lennon had a temper so volatile, nearly anything could set him off. One night, it exploded in an incident that ended up damaging his 4 year-old son’s hearing. Sean, who was playing with food, got a yelling so bad he had to go to the hospital.
GoKG TIL a pit bull earned the ranking of Sergeant in the US Army during WWI and is considered a decorated war hero.