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TIL The black tip at the end of a cutter knife is used to snap-off a dull blade tip

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jN16R TIL there is reportedly $2 million worth of treasure hidden in the Rocky Mountains. The man who claims he stashed it there says he did it to cheer people up after the Great Recession. Critics say he’s making it all up just to sell copies of his memoirs
oooA TIL in 2000, the destroyer USS The Sullivans was the target of a failed terror plot in the Port of Aden; the bombers’ suicide boat was so overloaded with explosives that it sank. The culprits were able to salvage the explosives, and 9 months later, used them to attack the USS Cole in the same port.
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