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TIL in 2009 a man hid a bomb inside his anus in an attempt to assassinate saudi prince Muhammad bin Nayef, which was described as "a novel technique". Even though he got within hand-shake distance from the prince, his body absorbed most of the blast, so Bin Nayef was only slightly injured

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4VeN TIL one of the last SS units to hold out defending Hitler’s bunker in Berlin was comprised entirely of Frenchmen
9YEgX TIL of Project Stormfury. Ran by the US government in 1962, it was an attempt to weaken tropical cyclones by flying aircraft near the eye walls, and “seeding” them with silver iodide in hopes to freezing their inner structures. The project was a failure, and ended in 1983.
Y7M4r TIL The small intestine is four times the length of a human being if its torsions were untwisted.
G0yQ TIL that a man once made a deal to pay a then 90-year old woman 2500 franc a month in order to inherit her aparment when she died. She eventually outlived the man with him dying 30 years later. The woman became the oldest person on earth, living to be 122.
Meo18 TIL that in 1920 a thief named Carl Panzram broke into the home of former president William H. Taft and stole his gun. Over the next few years he became a serial killer and killed 10 people with Taft's gun.