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TIL the U.S. military played Metallica records to weaken prisoners it planned to interrogate but stopped after the band objected stating it didn't want to encourage violence, according to the Navy Seal who killed Osama Bin Laden. They substituted it with Christian metal band Demon Hunter.

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