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TIL: Ninja Rocks (Small Shards of Aluminum Oxide Ceramic) Will Shatter Car Windows Despite The Heavy Impacts Auto Glass is Made To Absorb

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5VVQp TIL about the Faraday School Kidnapping that occurred in 1972 in Victoria, Australia, where two men kidnapped a teacher her six students for a ransom of $1,000,000. The kidnapping inspired the HBO movie, "Fortress", which portrayed the kidnappers as gun-wielding maniacs wearing Halloween masks.
j8Xp TIL that the longest prison sentence ever requested was 384,912 years of jail, against a 22 years old postman accused of failing to deliver 42,768 letters
DQ0Bp TIL That the deadliest blizzard in history occurred in Iran in 1972. In some places over 25 feet of snow fell.
W7keX TIL A killing committed on an iceberg outside of any country's territorial waters led to such a massive kerfuffle over the questions of jurisdiction and who had the right to try the defendant that it is being examined as a possible case study in the event murder occurs in outer space.
woj96 TIL about the Family Viewing Hour, a 1975 FCC policy that TV networks in the USA had to air "family-friendly" programming during the first hour of prime-time. The policy was abandoned in 1977 following a ruling by a federal court that it violated the First Amendment.