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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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N7gNb TIL of the “asshole” experiments: participants were blocked from walking down a narrow hallway by a researcher who called them an “asshole”. Southern men were far more likely to respond aggressively to the insult than Northern men who shrugged it off.
joYE TIL Whales of the same species speak in different dialects
M7ga8 TIL How indigenous people shaped Australia’s curious geography of plants
xMB TIL Nzinga of Matamba was a warrior queen who kept a harem of 60 men whom she dressed in women’s clothes
nDoo TIL Twix has slumped in size from 60g in the 1980s to 58g in the 2000s to 50g in 2015