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TIL 3 suicide bombers prematurely exploded because the bombs were set on daylight savings time.

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Yrl7 TIL that Nicolas Cage purchased a rare dinosaur skull for $276,000 in an auction after winning a bidding contest against Leonardo DiCaprio. After being contacted by authorities, he discovered that the skull was stolen and he returned it to the Mongolian Government.
xV4M5 TIL: May 26 is National Sorry day in Australia, to commemorate the mistreatment of the country’s indigenous people.
N7gGJ TIL a Missouri Man purposely damaged a levee on the Mississippi River to delay his wife coming home so he could party. He flooded 14,000 acres and was later arrested and convicted of causing a catastrophe and sentenced to life in prison.
ANZ7B TIL that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has a sunscreen protection factor (SPF) of 1.2 million on its sunshield
6E0NW TIL Active since at least 1998, "in concert with the CIA and FBI, (NSA's) TAO is used to intercept laptops purchased online, divert them to secret warehouses where spyware and hardware is installed, and send them on to customers."