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TIL Harvey’s Wagon Wheel Casino was heavily damaged by a bomb in an extortion attempt in 1980. The bomb was designed and built by a millionaire businessman is the most complex improvised explosive device ever created, according to the FBI.

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xVMk0 TIL that the Galil ARM features a bottle opener on the front handguard, as magazines were being damaged by being used to open bottles.
X09NE TIL Homo Sapiens hunted to extinction 46/57 megaherbivore species (body mass ≥1,000 kg) over the past 50 000 years
XED4X TIL that the most successful pirate in history was a Chinese woman named Ching Shih. She commanded the Red Flag Fleet which consisted of 300 ships and 40,000 pirates. She was also one of the only pirates to actually retire.
BgwvK TIL about exploding ants (Colobopsis explodens) who sacrifice themselves to save their colony
dw5j TIL on this day in 1659, the Massachusetts Bay Colony executed 2 people for being Quakers. King Charles II then banned such executions and called for greater religious tolerance.