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TIL: In 2011 drug cartel kidnapped hundreds of innocent bus passengers in Mexico and made them fight to death like gladiators. The survivors would be informed of new purpose in life as assassins for gang.

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OgOg TIL the US Navy maintains a research vessel that is designed to be capsized vertically. As a result, most rooms on it have two doors: one to use when the ship is horizontal, another when vertical.
jNyp TIL neuroscientists have shown that the Arabic alphabet is objectively harder to read than any other writing system
16008 TIL: In Laos, as of last year, meth prices dropped to $0.25, making it cheaper than beer. Laos now joins Myanmar and Thailand as having the cheapest meth in the world.
rReD1 TIL that Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward almost died after a prank by his band. After finding Ward naked and unconscious after a night of heavy drinking, they thought it would be funny to cover the drummer from head to toe in paint. Ward soon became violently ill and had a seizure
K80w TIL Jason Voorhees has been unmasked and featured a different looking face in nearly every Friday the 13th film