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TIL: The former French president authorized the bombing of a Greenpeace boat because it was protesting nuclear weapons testing.

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px9p TIL there is an ongoing genocide in the country of Burma in which 140,000 native Rohingya people are stripped of citizenship and forced into concentration camps
7NDO TIL There was a real “Chili Cookoff” in which a serial killer used his victims flesh in his chili and won, much like Eric Cartman in Scott Tenorman Must Die
OwJY TIL Judge Clarence Thomas once argued that a burning cross should not enjoy First Amendment protection, saying, “There’s no other purpose to the cross, no communication, no particular message. It was intended to cause fear and to terrorize a population.”
JEOm TIL Iran’s Air Force Flies American-Made F-14 Tomcats
KAgJ TIL during the prohibition era, the US government added poison to industrial alcohol to discourage consumption. People continued to drink it, so the government added more and they killed 10,000 people.