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TIL the FBI purposely facilitated a lot of the ‘terrorists’ they seemingly foiled

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WO54 TIL courts can order Vaccinating of a child Over the Parents’ wishes during a outbreak
dEEZ TIL - In the late 1980s, Iraq began building the largest artillery piece in history, a gun that could have put satellites into Orbit, and conceivably hit any spot on the planet. However, the mysterious assassination of its Canadian designer, and the first Gulf War, ended the project
W7pr9 TIL about Josiah Harlan, an American traveler who raised an army in Afghanistan 1830s with the intent of becoming a king. He led his followers on various campaigns against slaveholding princes and after returning to the US attempted to be appointed a general in the Civil War against the Confederacy.
grvYL TIL about Tank Tactics, a game created by Halfbrick, the developers of Fruit Ninja. A prototype version was set up in the Halfbrick offices, but it soon had to be banned because it was too psychologically damaging.
6koQ TIL Lola Montez, an Irish woman who passed herself off as Spanish, had affairs with Franz Liszt, Alexandre Dumas & the king of Bavaria (who made her countess, triggering a popular uprising and his own abdication), and later lived in Australia and the US Far West, all before dying at 40