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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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GA87 TIL the wheel was patented in 2001
NX0xM TIL that Tina Turner was so famous in Australia that she has an official dance to one of her songs "Nutbush City Limits" (the nutbush) and they filmed her singing on the Sydney Harbour Bridge!!!
rRGWw TIL that Gay Penguins will steal babies to raise from Straight Penguins. Some will even leave rocks as decoy eggs.
PPnG TIL that only two of the past seven US presidents have been right handed, even though about 90% of humans are right handed.
vOMj TIL Bob Marley’s “No Woman, No Cry” lists V. Ford as the songwriter so that the royalty checks could be used to run a soup kitchen.