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TIL people are using Google Maps to make other people aware of dangerous landmine fields in Kosovo

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oBg4E TIL a passenger shared a photo of the plane saying "Should it disappear, this is what he looks like." before MH17 Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur flight in which the aircraft was shot down by surface-to-air missile transported from Russia. All passengers and the crew were killed.
xd8o TIL that to circumvent US laws banning the export of cryptography software as “ammunition”, PGP inventor Phill Zimmermann published the entire sourcecode in a hardcover book. The export of books is fully legal.
epmmD TIL Mandi Tribe in Bangladesh practices father-daughter marriage
5Vmrp TIL that the Spiders could theoretically eat all humans on Earth in just one year
PBEL TIL that both sides of the First Congo War ate pygmies “as though they were game animals.”