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TIL that in 2012, a Mormon sect in Arizona responded to a former member who spoke out against their leader by placing at his home a kitten that was buried alive in concrete up to the neck inside a metal tube. The kitten was rescued but died a few days later

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pPDA TIL that two students were arrested in 1972 for a plan to poison Chicago’s water supply with typhoid, anthrax, and various other pathogens. Released on bond, they hijacked a plane and forced it to go to Cuba; one died in prison and the other eventually made it home, getting five years of probation.
yKxV TIL Nutella is less nutritious than cake frosting
AdY4 TIL The plastic card where the U.S. nuclear launch codes are written includes codes which have no meaning. The president must memorize where the correct code is located on the list, which allows him to positively identify himself as the commander-in-chief and thereby authenticate a launch order.
0wQEy TIL that a research suggests that humans fear cockroaches the most, even more than mosquitoes, due to an evolutionary aversion.
oBPMR TIL Canada was so nice to their POW’s during World War 2 that almost 20% of them requested to stay after the war