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TIL that two psychologists, inexperienced in interrogation, were paid $80 million for developing and running the CIA torture program.

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8erna TIL The Ottoman Empire forcibly kidnapped Christian boys from their families, converted them to Islam, and forced them to serve the Sultan
rRrg1 TIL: In April, Dr. Ch@os, the man responsible for the causing power outages, taking down air traffic towers, and storing cyanide will no longer have his internet use monitored. He has promised to not commit crime again.
looDa TIL That these guys prolly died to cover up the pedo ring the LAPD are investigating
L09 TIL Dana Carvey (Wayne, from Wayne’s World) had bypass surgery, the surgeon operated on the wrong vessel, he sued and won 7.5 million, then donated it all to charity.
AD5gn TIL when Stan Lee was designing Spider-Man, his publisher told him "Stan, that is the worst idea I have ever heard. First of all, people hate spiders, so you can’t call a book Spider-Man. Secondly he can’t be a teenager—teenagers can only be sidekicks. And third, he can’t have personal problems.