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TIL a CIA handbook taught torture methods to extract information from people without extracting fingernails and stressed on importance of psychological over physical torture, i.e. intense fear, deep exhaustion, solitary confinement and unbearable anxiety which destroy ones capacity to resist.

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7rYap TIL a guy bought a motel to watch guests have sex from the attic above their rooms. 30 years, never got caught. Even witnessed a murder.
1aomr TIL of Le Pétomane, a French farteur, who could suck water up from a pan into his rectum and project it up to several yards along with playing "La Marseillaise" on an ocarina through a rubber tube in his anus.
OGGm7 TIL that roughly 99% of the world's population will be in daylight on July 8th at 7:15am ET. About 6.4 billion people will be in daytime while 1.2 billion will be in twilight.
gMRKD TIL Nearly 1 in 3 men aged 18-24 did not have sex in the past year, up substantially from the year 2000
N7mWJ TIL Charlotte Whitton was a Canadian feminist and mayor of Ottawa. She was the first woman mayor of a major city in Canada, serving from 1951 to 1956 and again from 1960 to 1964. Whitton was a Canadian social policy pioneer, leader and commentator, as well as a journalist and writer.