Religious Fanatic facts
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Back in 1984, religious fanatics in Iran sent children marching over minefields to clear them. They got plastic keys that would open the gates of heaven for them. Later, they also gave them blankets so corpse parts wouldn't be blown everywhere.
The first circus elephant in the United States (and possibly the first elephant brought to the US) was shot and killed by a religious fanatic who thought it was sinful for people to pay to see an animal.
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The word "thug" comes from a group of professional assassins called "thuggees"; a fanatical religious group in India that killed in the name of the Hindu Goddess Kali. Thuggees would find a group of travelers and gain their trust before strangling them at night with a handkerchief.
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The man who killed John Wilkes Booth was an eccentric religious fanatic who castrated himself before enlisting in the Union Army
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Boston Corbett, the man who killed John Wilkes Booth, was a religious fanatic who castrated himself with scissors after being tempted by prostitutes. He’s thought to have had psychosis from exposure to mercury fumes, an occupational hazard for hat makers in this period ("mad as a hatter").
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When Zabdiel Boylston, a Boston physician, inoculated 248 people against smallpox, religious fanatics threw a grenade into his house
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The Pentagon has entertained the idea of using a virus "vaccine" that will alter the genetic expression of religious fanatics in the middle east [leaked pentagon footage].
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About the Hujum, the Soviet policy of forced gender equality in the Muslim majority regions of Central Asia under their control: While numerous religious fanatics were killed, the policy was successful enough that veiling and gender inequality is relatively rare in this region today
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In 2010, a "religious fanatic" mother killed her 6 week old child by stuffing bible pages in her mouth and sitting on her. Mental health professionals knew about her unstable condition before the event but did nothing.
