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TIL of Barrack Busters, an improvised motar created by the IRA that fires propane tanks

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M7G8 TIL When a male honey bee orgasms, it’s testicles explode and it dies shortly after.
0wDly TIL That the DEA found an increase from about 4% THC in 1995 to about 12% in 2014 in marijuana. By 2017, another study showed, the potency of illicit drug samples had gone up to 17.1% THC, an increase of more than 300% from 1995 to about 2017.
xbmo TIL that the World’s Largest Family consists of 1 husband, 39 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren.
8eQJV TIL of Stanley Adams who became a whistleblower against Hoffmann-LaRoche in 1973. His name leaked, and was sued for industrial espionage facing 20 years in prison (serving only 6 months). During the trial his wife commited suicide. In 1994 he was caught hiring an assassin to murder his second wife
KO74 TIL Gary Oldman has never received an Academy Award nomination until this year. Even though being in films such as Sid and Nancy, The Contender, The Fifth Element, Harry Potter and Nolan’s Batman Trilogy.