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TIL the Taliban buy children as young as 7 to serve as suicide bombers. The going price for a child bomber is said to be between $7,000-$14,000..

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AVdx TIL that the programmer for the Original Doom, John Carmack, broke into a school to steal an Apple II computer using home-made thermite; he later went to juvenile detention and forced to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
WV98 TIL, During the 1970’s the Russian space agency had a orbiting station which was armed with a 30mm cannon for ‘self defence’ and was test fired during it’s last mission.
VBlnG TIL when Bette Davis diminished Joan Crawford's career by saying she got it through the casting couch, Crawford responded: "It sure as hell beats the hard cold floor."
NE1N TIL that it would take only 4 (large) asteroids to trigger run-away global warming on mars, so you wouldn’t need a space suit.
v1EEL TIL on February 11, 1992, a man who was likely innocent of a crime for which he was about to be put to death uttered these last words: "I'd like to thank my family for loving me and taking care of me. And the rest of the world can kiss my everloving ass, because I'm innocent."