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TIL there is a radio station in Somalia that has given away assault rifles and hand grenades to children as competition prizes

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Y71pv TIL that the color Purple was never used to represent a Kingdom or country before the 20th Century. It was because until the 1800s, purple dye was worth more than its weight in gold.
gMoeX TIL that matches weren't invented until 1826. As John Walker stirred a pot of chemicals, a lump formed on the end of the mixing stick. He tried scraping the dried chemicals off, igniting the stick and accidentally inventing matches.
MjRa TIL One of the first Egyptian creation myths involved Atum, the first being, reproducing by masturbating & swallowing his own cum. He then spit out the god of moisture & mist, literally naming it “spit” (Tefnut). Then he sneezed out the god of air & emptiness, literally naming it “sneeze” (Shu).
neAgP TIL the UAE has experimented with literal rainmaking since 2011, called cloud seeding, attempting to increase its sparse average rainfall and decrease its hot summer temperatures. Drones add silver iodide and electrical charges to existing clouds to clump them together and increase precipitation.
p8ERG TIL that the fourth leading cause of death in the United States is adverse reactions to FDA approved drugs.