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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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PJgn TIL that in 1994 a Boy Scout named David Hahn attempted to make a neutron “gun,” and dangerously irradiated himself and his neighborhood in the process until his arrest.
9wE8Q TIL that the Xerxes Canal in Greece was built around 480BC by Persian king Xerxes I to allow his fleet to safely bypass the dangerous waters around Mount Athos during his invasion of Greece, though much of it has eroded or been covered by farmland over the centuries.
yjy8 TIL that in 1930 a zoologist went to Syria and brought back 11 newly discovered hamsters. Only 2 of them bred and their offspring were sent to laboratories around the world. Today, the hamsters you see in pet stores are most likely descendants of these two hamsters.
JYeNm TIL "King of the Hill" nearly was a Beavis & Butthead spin-off where Hank would have been Mr. Anderson's son. Fox shot the idea down.
VBLX8 TIL that an Indian lawyer sued the Hindu god Rama over mistreatment of his wife Sita