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TIL Christian propagandists produced a found-footage horror film about a family being terrorized by a box of porn

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9YBPD TIL In 2001, the Mossad dispatched undercover agents in London to monitor a top Syrian official. On the first day of his visit, one team followed him, while another broke into his hotel room and hacked his laptop. In 2007, Israel would launch a night time airstrike against a Syrian nuclear actor.
Pa8L TIL during her 2007 Emmys acceptance speech, Sally Field said, “if the mothers ruled the world, there would be no wars in the first place,” but was censored on American TV - international viewers heard the whole quote.
ny77 TIL during WW2, when the Russians retreated they usually destroyed most buildings suitable for command posts. However, they would often leave some large buildings intact, but only after lining the buildings with time bombs set to explode weeks later - to destroy entire German headquarters at once
9007 TIL Gunpowder was invented in China while taoists attempted to create a potion of immortality.
rNG11 TIL that there are nearly 20 times as many billionaires today as in 1987. In 1987, there were just 140 billionaires in the world, worth a combined $295 billion. There are now 2,755 billionaires, worth a combined $13.1 trillion.