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TIL of the Testament of Peter the Great, a fabricated document alleged to reflect Russian plans for world domination throughout the 18th and 19th centuries

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Ax5l TIL a Minnesota man was busted for building a “vibrator bomb” he intended to give an ex-girlfriend for Christmas. This vibrator was filled with gunpowder, BB shot and buckshot and he said“when the device was inserted into the female he would pull the trigger and it would blow them up.”
7rvXp TIL Idi Amin, dictator and commonly known as the "Butcher of Uganda", reportedly boasted that he kept the decapitated heads of political enemies in his freezer, although he said that human flesh was generally "too salty" for his taste.
e0lvk TIL that despite it’s more than half a century old, SR-71 Blackbird still holds the official Air Speed Record for a manned airbreathing jet aircraft with a speed of 2,193 mph (3,530 km/h)!
6EODm TIL the inventor of K-Cups regrets the idea. Why? Because the K-Cups are bad for the environment -- they are disposable and not recyclable.
E5L7 TIL in 1971, LANSA Flight 508 crashed over the Amazon Jungle, killing all crew and 85 of 86 passengers. The sole survivor was a 17 y.o. girl, who fell 2 miles down into the rain forest strapped to her seat, survived the fall, and walked the jungle injured for 10 days until she was rescued by locals