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TIL that director Christopher Nolan’s brother Matthew was alleged to be a contract killer who kidnapped and tortured an accountant to death in Costa Rica. While being held in a secure prison tower in Chicago, Matthew concocted an elaborate escape attempt using a razor, a harness, and a 31-foot rope.
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TIL of Mikhail Kalinin, the head of state of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1946. His title was just nominal though, and he held little influence. So little that Kalinin was powerless to do anything when his wife, Ekaterina, was arrested, tortured and imprisoned for criticizing Joseph Stalin.
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9/11 is also the anniversary of the 1973 coup d’état in Chile led by General Pinochet, who overthrew the democratically-elected President then executed thousands and interned and tortured tens of thousands for 17 years. The U.S. apparently condoned the coup and worked with Pinochet afterwards.
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TIL that 9/11 is the anniversary of the 1973 coup d’état in Chile led by General Pinochet, who executed thousands and interned and tortured tens of thousands for 17 years. While the U.S. may not have directly backed the coup, it appeared to condone it and worked with Pinochet afterwards.
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TIL a hole in the roof of a church allowed Cassini to measure the change in diameter of the sun’s disk over the year, confirming that Earth moves around the Sun in an elliptical orbit and the same church hosts a 15th-century fresco of Prophet Mohammed in hell, being tortured and devoured by a demon
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