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TIL Saudi Arabia’s Minister of the Interior met with a terrorist who stated that he would surrender unconditionally. The two men sat on the floor. The terrorist began to shake and cry and then blew himself up. The minister survived, because the explosives in the terrorist’s rectum blasted downward.

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