› added 8 years ago

362

TIL a suicide bomber planning on detonating in Moscow at New Year’s Eve, used her phone as the trigger. When her mobile phone company sent her a spam message, the bomb detonated, killing only herself.

Read more news.com.au

via ift.tt

pYopA TIL in 2010 the first purchase a tiler made after winning £2.4 million in the lottery was a pool table. Then he retired & honed his skills at home during the lockdowns and rose through the ranks to become a regular county player. And in 2023, he represented England at the European Pool Championships
4kRaN TIL Americans have a distinctive lean and it’s one of the first things the CIA trains operatives to fix.
YNOW TIL that one heavily-loaded truck can do more damage to a road surface than 10,000 passenger cars.
YpyDx TIL: In 2010, a boa constrictor was shown to have reproduced asexually via parthenogenesis. This is only the third genetically confirmed case of consecutive virgin births of viable offspring from a single female within any vertebrate lineage.
N7ABN TIL the world's best selling spirit is "baijiu", a Chinese sorghum-based liquor.