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TIL Crucifixion is still legal in Sudan

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vPjnK TIL that privacy debate suffers from a narrow understanding of the problem. The ways in which privacy invasions can cause harm to law-abiding individuals are often ignored, underestimated or even deliberately concealed, leading to the widespread (but misguided) “I have nothing to hide” attitude.
Oox5a TIL that Pablo Picasso carried around a revolver loaded with blanks, which he used to shoot at people who asked about the meaning behind his paintings
VPxm TIL Jay Leno has never touched a dime of his ‘Tonight Show’ money
awykM TIL that in 1965 the Soviet Union detonated a nuclear device near the Chagan river to create an artificial lake with a volume of about 10 million cubic metres under it's Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy program. To date the lake is slightly radioactive and is nicknamed "the atomic lake".
ovMo TIL there is a U.S. Marine post in Afghanistan called “ManBearPig.”