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TIL Papua is at war - Inside The West Papua Liberation Army

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oePY TIL Kelsey Grammer’s Dad was murdered; his little sister was kidnapped, raped, and murdered by Freddie Glen; both his twin half-brothers died in a scuba diving accident; and his best friend was killed in 9/11
VM5v0 TIL "Hands up don't shoot" never actually happened in the Mike Brown case. The DOJ investigation found that Brown was shot while charging at the cop, after beating him & reaching for his gun
rQR0 TIL The longest work of fiction ever written is three million words long and six times longer than War and Peace, as of July 2013. It is a Super Smash Bros. Brawl fanfic.
PDWZ TIL North Carolina’s copy of the Bill of Rights, stolen by a Union soldier in 1865, was recovered by an FBI sting operation in 2003
Zp8lQ TIL: US torpedoes at the beginning of WW2 had an extremely high dud rate that took awhile to be acknowledged because the US Navy refused to allow live testing of ordinance as a cost saving measure.