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TIL Aum Shinrikyo, the Japanese doomsday cult known for the 1995 Tokyo Subway Gas attacks, had made plans to manufacture and distribute AK-47's to their members, even going as far as to purchase an old iron works factory and build their own prototype.

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8Y4P TIL Everest is not the furthest point from the Earth’s center. It’s a volcano in Ecuador called Chimborazo due the Earth being wider at the equator.
69W1Q TIL just 4 religions: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, account for over 77% of the world's population, and 92% of the world is one of those religions or nonreligious, meaning that the other 9,000+ faiths account for only 8% of the population combined.
Bl7d TIL the leader of the US nuclear regulatory agency is Mr. Burns
xVOMo TIL that the handrail around the turret in some early WW2 tanks is an antenna. The presence of a handrail antenna would reveal to the enemy that the tank is a command tank, which made it a primary target in the combat. Because of this, it was eventually replaced with a whip antenna.
awAGZ TIL about the Norwegian Lundehund, one of the world's rarest and oldest dog breeds, which has six toes, extremely flexible joints and was bred specifically to fetch puffin eggs.