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TIL Some visitors to Jerusalem go psychotic in the same chilling ways: ditching their family to wander the city alone, preaching sermons at holy sites, obsessing over cleanliness, wearing togas, and shouting scripture. Affects all faiths.

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DGMj TIL - The “Lord of War” films production team rented 3000 real SA Vz. 58 rifles to stand in for AK 47s because they were cheaper than prop guns.
10ZO TIL The top 3 deadliest lone wolf shootings did not occur in the US, but actually occured in Korea, Norway, and Australia. The third most deadly shooting was by a mentally handicapped heir to a small fortune, who used an AR-15 to attack a former prison colony in Port Arthur, Australia.
xMKo TIL Dark roast coffee actually has less caffeine than light roasts
E1bEP TIL that A&W introduced a 1/3 lb burger which was cheaper and preferred in taste tastes to McDonalds 1/4 pounder. It failed as the American public thought the 3 in the name made it smaller than the McDonalds product.
ONe7 TIL the 1978 “UFO abduction” of Frederick Valentich has been solved: out searching for UFOs, the inexperienced pilot saw “4 points of light of an elongated UFO”. Recent astronomical simulations show a perfect diamond formed by Mercury, Venus, Mars and nearby star Antares.