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TIL in 2009, Libyan leader Gadaffi called for Switzerland to be dissolved and divided up between neighbouring countries after Swiss police arrested his son for beating up hotel staff. In 2010, he declared jihad on the country.

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1Wd7 TIL that US interrogators tortured an Afghan detainee to death by hanging him by his arms for 4 days and beating his legs so badly they needed amputation. They did this despite most interrogators believing him to be “an innocent man who simply drove his taxi past the American base at the wrong time”
4mo TIL Rockstar Games (Max Payne, GTA, etc) has purposely avoided making any First Person Shooters, claiming Max Payne 3 is the closest
W7QxX TIL that the words "yes", "no", "yea", and "nay" used to have distinct meanings/usage in English
1RoP TIL that in 1924, chess player and Russian world champion Richard Réti played 29 blindfold chess games simultaneously, then forgot his briefcase at the event when he left.
6El5w TIL Mary Kay Letourneau's father John G. Schmitz once ran for President of the United States, and was such an extreme right-winger, the ultra-conservative John Birch Society expelled him