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TIL That the term ‘Jadotville Jack’ was used to describe members of A Company 35th Batallion Irish Army. The term was in reference to the unit’s forced surrender after a siege from a numerically superior mercenary force and the Irish government/UN’s refusal to decorate any survivors of the battle.
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TIL of the Goa Inquisition in Portuguese India which enforced Catholic Orthodoxy from 1561 to 1812. Primary targets were Hindus who were forced to convert under imprisonment and starvation. All records were destroyed by the Portuguese in 1812 and exact number of casualties still remain unknown today
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TIL Rosemary Kennedy was forced back into her mother’s birth canal, depriving her brain of oxygen. As a child, she failed to reach developmental milestones; at 23, she underwent a frontal lobotomy to modify behavior, leaving her mentally crippled. She was institutionalized for the rest of her life.
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