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Til there’s weird ass videos like this on YouTube shorts 😭

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BrvEK TIL that in 1990, unemployed nuclear physicist André Gardes tried to invade the island of Sark (a feudal system until 2008) on his own. Sark's only policeman complimented his gun, Gardes showed it off to him and the policeman took it and imprisoned him for 7 days. Gardes tried again a year later.
pYn5Z TIL that adding gallium to aluminum makes it as weak as paper!
yQn5J TIL that after the Holocaust a number of survivors called Nakam or "Jewish Avengers" attempted to exact revenge on the Germans by poisoning their food and water.
LkNJZ TIL that durning WW2, the US government begged housewives to not reuse bacon grease, but to turn it in. A pound of fat could make a pound of explosives for bombs. In the end, bacon helped defeat the Nazis.
naBG TIL that Virginia rounds up its sex offenders to be held at the courthouse during trick-or-treating hours.