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TIL that Libyan dictator Gaddafi gave the Irish Republican Army four tons of Semtex. The IRA sold the plastic explosive to FARC in Colombia with bomb-making technology and training, charging $1 million per class for 28 classes

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NXpN8 TIL that "Little House on the Prairie" books were adapted as a Japanese Anime TV Series called "Laura, the Prairie Girl" (Sôgen no shôjô Laura). It ran from 1975-1976 in Japan, and was dubbed for Italian and Spanish language audiences in the 80s, but has never aired in the United States.
KeD4 TIL that during the embryo development 3 sets of kidneys develop, but only one set remains to become the permanent adult kidneys.
9g8X TIL in 2013, J.K. Rowling secretly released a book under a different name in order to release a book “without hype and expectation.” When she was revealed to be the author, the book surged from 4,709th on Amazon to the 1st best-selling novel.
b9oe7 TIL: GPS signals are being spoofed in some areas of Moscow: “the fake signal, which seems to center on the Kremlin, relocates anyone nearby to Vnukovo Airport, 32 km away. The scale of the problem did not become apparent until people began trying to play Pokemon Go.”
yVYXV TIL about Cordelia Botkin, a U.S. woman who mailed a box of poisoned chocolates to Elizabeth Dunning, her ex-lover's wife, in 1898. Dunning and her older sister, Ida Harriet Deane, died two days later. It was the 1st prosecuted U.S. crime that took place in two states (mailed from CA to DE).