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TIL that 35% of British adults sleep with a teddy bear

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7r4LZ TIl that in 1999 George Harrison nearly became the 2nd Beatle to be murdered when an intruder who believed the Beatles were witches broke into his home and stabbed him multiple times and punctured one of his lungs. His wife fortunately fought the attacker off.
rEBe TIL that US interrogators tortured an Afghan detainee to death by hanging him by his arms for 4 days and beating his legs so badly they needed amputation. They did this despite most interrogators believing him to be “an innocent man who simply drove his taxi past the American base at the wrong time”
VBlZ TIL there are only 210 people in the armed forces of Iceland
kJGL7 TIL the CIA struggled to recruit candidates who had visible tattoos because such markings made agents easier to identify. This rule has been relaxed, but it once limited their ability to hire otherwise qualified applicants.
yxkp TIL 3 scientific papers were published because of new knowledge gained about black holes in the rendering of scenes for the movie Interstellar