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TIL USA once decided to nuke the moon. The reason? “Because we can!”.

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Wo68 TIL that during the torture of the alleged 20th hijacker Mohammed al-Qahtani, he was forced to “watch puppet shows depicting sexual acts between him and Osama bin Laden at his mock birthday party”
78ER7 TIL that in 1984, British Railways deliberately crashed a train carrying nuclear fuel to prove its safety.
e4YJ TIL that Muzzammil Hassan, the founder of a TV network designed to counter negative stereotypes of Muslims, murdered his wife by decapitation
v1GMR TIL about the Still Face Experiment, where infants showed they can experience great distress when they are not smiled at and responded to.
ApX4 TIL that South Africans call Traffic Lights “Robots”.