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TIL American soldiers would wrap suicide attackers from the Moro Muslim group in the Philippines in pig skin to make them unfit to go to heaven and deter potential future attacks by them

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MeNeB TIL about the "Dumbest Member of Congress" William L. Scott, US Senator from Virginia who being briefed by members of the military about missile silos in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, reportedly said "Wait a minute! I'm not interested in agriculture. I want the military stuff."
GYRj TIL that in 2010 the International Council on Security and Development conducted a survey that found that 92% of Afghan men have never heard of 9/11.
9WMm TIL that bases feel slippery because they dissolve the fatty acids and oils in your skin, essentially making soap out of you.
d8lRQ TIL that when he was assassinated, Martin Luther King Jr. had a nearly 75% public disapproval rate
xxVB TIL in 1957 an airplane crashed onto Rikers Island. 57 inmates ran to help the survivors. Most of the prisoners who helped were either set free or received reduced sentences.