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TIL of a "rehabilitated" member of Al-Qaeda who tried to assassinate Saudi Arabia's Deputy Minister of the Interior by sticking a pound of plastic explosive in his anal cavity. The target survived, stating "I did not want him to be searched, but he surprised me by blowing himself up"

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4kRWa TIL that DC published in 1999 the anthology comic Elseworlds 80-Page Giant, which had most of its copies recalled and destroyed because one story, titled "Letitia Lerner, Superman's Babysitter", had a baby Clark Kent climbing into a microwave.
yjxM TIL home video copies of Gremlins 2 had a scene that simulates the Gremlins interfering with the VHS itself. The scene was taken out and replaced because customers kept thinking it was real.
pYwRA TIL that coal, solar, and wind's combined capacity factor (actual electrical energy output over time when compared to theoretical output) is merely 8% better than just nuclear energy's capacity factor (92.5%).
R5rw9 TIL that 2500 years ago, an explorer named Hanno found a tribe of ‘hairy and savage’ people. He captured three women, but they were so ferocious that he had them killed and skinned. It’s speculated that he actually discovered gorillas. Gorillas were named after his name for the tribe.
kOLaW TIL that "The Mandalorian" is shot primarily inside 'The Volume', a large array of LED screens that allow the CGI backgrounds to be filmed live, creating realistic settings and shadows.