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TIL Tian Mingjian, a sharpshooter, killed his commanding officer and 27 others after his wife was forced to terminate her second pregnancy, killing her

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dka7 TIL in 2002, while returning to the US, the USS John C. Stennis aircraft carrier stopped in Australia, where the sailors wore out the local sex workers to the point the brothel had to close down temporarily.
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