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TIL the “liquid bomb” terror attack, the one that caused the TSA to restrict the size of your shampoo and buy water inside the security gates, was thrown out of court and the ringleader totally acquitted. There was ZERO actual threat.

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7rxmb TIL the idea for the ATM cash machine came about when its inventor, John Shepherd-Barron, took a bath after his bank branch had closed for the day and was inspired by chocolate bar vending machines
JGL4 TIL German archaeologists at Herxheim discovered 7,000 y/o mass graves containing at least 500 people who were ritually butchered and eaten by an unknown cannibalistic culture as part of a “…standard, repetitive, and strongly ritualised practice.”
dYGK TIL during the reign of the Khmer Rouge, there was a prison camp, named S-21, that had a death rate of 99.96%. S-21 was directed by a former math teacher who ordered “living autopsies,” had prisoners’ blood completely drained for use in hospitals, and used a “baby-smashing tree” to kill children.
a8w19 TIL in 2015 the US Forces wanted to update the 'loose lips, sink ships' warning from WW2, Warning against sharing information with others outside the forces. They had to tailor it for the Social Media generation, and came up with: 'loose tweets destroy fleets'.
vPavL TIL that MLB Hall of Famer Gary Carter invented the “f-bomb” term in a 1988 Newsday story. That term would later be published in the Webster dictionary in 2012 crediting Carter for its first recorded use.