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TIL: A lawyer wrote a BS threatening letter to The Cleveland Browns, they responded by warning him that “some asshole” must be impersonating him and sending threatening letters.

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yp6e TIL in 2003, Metallica music and popular American children’s songs (e.g., the theme songs to Sesame Street and Barney) were used by U.S. interrogators to break the will of their captives in Iraq. Amnesty International claimed this may constitute torture and be in violation of the Geneva Convention.
e0vp5 TIL of Giuseppe Castiglione, an Italian Jesuit missionary to China who became the court artist of the Qing Emperors. Rather than just force European art on the Chinese or copy Chinese styles, Giuseppe blended the two styles together, which created an entirely new fusion painting style in Chinese art
W70vo TIL that Blackjack Pizza was founded by a former Domino's employee who wanted give Colorado an alternative to his former employer and the name is a reference to how the latter is named after a game.
kbeg TIL of albino redwoods. Unlike most chlorophyll producing plants, albino variants of redwoods don’t die as long as they are attached to a non albino redwood that is able to support them. There are only around 61 known examples of such plants
b9pV9 TIL of Joseph Trombino, Brinks truck driver, who narrowly survived an armed robbery in 1983 and the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, only to be killed in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001