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TIL in 2002 three geriatric Catholic nuns broke into a US nuclear missile launch facility, vandalized it with hammers, and drew crosses on the silo with their own blood.

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Jr91 TIL Japan has the largest organised crime group in the world called Yamaguchi Gumi that is worth $80bn .By contrast, Sinaloa, Mexico’s largest drug cartel, was worth $3bn.
gMn6W TIL of the meteor that hit the Russian town of Chelyabinsk, The light from the meteor was brighter than the Sun, visible up to 100 km (62 mi) away and released 26 to 33 times as much energy as that released from the atomic bomb detonated at Hiroshima.
NGGQ TIL that the guy in the cowboy hat saving lives at the Boston Marathon bombings today tried to kill himself in 2004 after hearing that his son was killed in Iraq.
KO0jw TIL that even after he became a famous writer and military officer, Winston Churchill was constantly overshadowed by his friend Winston Churchill
8eLXZ TIL of Chamoy Thipyaso who holds the record for the longest non-life-imprisonment prison sentence of 141078 years. She received the sentence for involvement in a pyramid scheme worth an estimated $200 million to $301 million.