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TIL that 40% of Palestinians support suicide bombings against civilians as long as its in “defense of islam”

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P1xZe TIL about AATIP. which was a secretive program run by the US Department of Defense from 2007 to 2012 that investigated reports of UFO sightings and other unexplained aerial phenomena. The program was officially declassified in 2017.
ygAV TIL David Ogilvy, a founder/forefather of modern advertising, despised outdoor ads: “Man is at his vilest when he erects a billboard. When I retire from Madison Avenue, I am going to start a secret society of masked vigilantes… chopping down posters at the dark of the moon.”
xVGD TIL Over 99% of Romans lived in Apartment buildings. Only 1% lived in private homes.
d8nx8 TIL that all major categories of tea, e.g. green, white, black, come from the same plant and that varieties such as Assam or Ceylon differ only because of the region in which they're grown (from which they take their name).
X0ME8 TIL there are approximately 0.41 concussions per game of NFL American football.