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TIL that Stephen Hawking’s fear of aliens comes from the possibility of aliens enslaving us based on the reality that we’ve done that to our selves in the past when a more technologically advanced civilization encountered a less technologically advanced civilization.

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KOmW4 TIL before the WWII Battle of Okinawa, the Japanese military forced Okinawan boys as young as 14 to fight against the US invasion. They weren't expected to win so the boys were given suicide missions. The only weapon most were given were 2 grenades - one for the US solders the other for themselves.
wLab8 TIL that "bull," meaning falsehood or nonsense, predates "bullshit" by centuries, and has no etymological connection to the word for male cattle.
EwvP TIL that Libyan dictator Gaddafi gave the Irish Republican Army four tons of Semtex. The IRA sold the plastic explosive to FARC in Colombia with bomb-making technology and training, charging $1 million per class for 28 classes
k0kd TIL The “Regular Show” was based off a short where two gas station workers trip on Acid.
p8M9p TIL that the Chicagoland Tylenol murders still remain unsolved and no one was ever charged. In 1982, 7 people were murdered via cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules; leading to industry-wide tamper-proof seals and phasing out of capsules.