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TIL the Indian military developed a Penetrating Cum Blast round.

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8Z5Z TIL some sources say that Kim Il-Sung, founder of North Korea, could actually be an impostor, as he might have stolen the name of a resistance leader who had died
joVn TIL the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles didn’t get color-specific masks until their first cartoon aired in 1988
nWGd TIL that Christopher Columbus ran a sex slave ring among other atrocities.
R7lG9 TIL astronauts receive a starting salary of only 66k a year.
nWKab TIL Torquemada, a Spanish friar, influenced the 1492 Alhambra Decree, expelling 200,000 Jews from Spain for not converting to Christianity. He created the Inquisition’s framework for trials, property seizures, and oversaw thousands of executions for heresy. Ironically, his family had Jewish roots.