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TIL that the claim that North Korea could kill 90 percent of the American people with an EMP attack was taken from a science fiction novel.

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GYbgE TIL that the Soviets were the first to land on Mars
D1vyD TIL The vast number of murals in Mexico City were thought to educate the Mexican people, and the movement was important in the art history of the nation as well as its impact on the educational and expressive capabaility of the broader society
VMn8Z TIL that just inside the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City is a tiny shop that is the world’s only surviving tattoo shop for medieval pilgrims. This is Razzouk Ink, a shop run by a family who have been involved in the cultural practice of inking marks of faith on pilgrims as far back as 1300.
wda1 TIL The first female pilot to ever serve in the Norwegian military was beheaded by a mob in Afghanistan in 2011, killed along with 6 others, in retaliation for the burning of the Qur'an by controversial “pastor” Terry Jones in the United States.
WkQXB TIL in 1906, the U.S. Supreme Court conducted its only criminal trial following the lynching of Ed Johnson, a black man whose habeus corpus petition was pending before the Supreme Court. The Sheriff holding Johnson was charged and convicted of contempt.