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TIL of a terrorist strategy to avoid tracked emails is for one terrorist to compose an email, save it as a draft, while another terrorist logs into the same account to read and delete the draft.

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nkJo TIL that for decades, the German Army issued a handheld single shot disposable flamethrower. The 16 inch long “Handflammpatrone” weighs only 1.4lbs(620g), yet it has a range of 90 meters…and can burn a surprisingly large area.
8aG6V TIL in 1957, BBC pulled a April Fools prank by including a segment about spaghetti harvest in their news show Panorama, discussing how spaghetti is grown in fields in Switzerland. As a result, people phoned the BBC wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti tree.
Y7Mrd TIL among the disintegrated remains of the Space Shuttle Columbia was the diary of Ilan Ramon, which managed to survive mostly intact. The diary detailed his first six days during Columbia's final mission.
MdVm TIL There is such an expansive collection of books under the British library in their archive, that if a person could read 5 books per day it would take the 80,000 years to complete.
dXQj TIL that there is a “Vegas/Dubai-styled” free trade zone on an island paradise in Iran. Anyone is welcomed to do business/visit there and it gets a million tourists a year.