I would just like to say that Arabs are Caucasian. And they don't all have beards.

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37. I made far more complex bombs when I was 13.

Minus the schrapnel. Used to take them out into the woods and toss them off the cliff to watch the giant fireballs or blow up abandoned rusted-out cars in the junkyard. I daresay that's borderline-normal where I grew up.

The instructions are in the internet and in many libraries and if you have some creativity and the ability to read between the lines most 6th grade science books. I got them from an older friend. Exploratory bomb-making is unfortunately a pastime of teenaged boys in some rural parts of the country. Other things I learned in backwoods chem-lab: napalm, thermite, stink bombs, smoke bombs, pipe bombs, concussive (exploding) slingshot ammo, rudimentary land-mines, pitch for flaming arrows, homemade fireworks...and despite a lack of interest (non-weapons grade) ricin and phosgene are not out of the realm of capabilities of your average preteen. None of these things are terribly difficult. There's about a 90% likelihood that the means to blow your entire neighborhood sky-high are under your kitchen sink if you know how to mix them in the right proportions.

We'd probably have more interest in STEM courses if we taught the less-harmful of these things in middle-school science class. I hated science class...I was probably most of the way through college before I realized my after-school hobby at 13 was science.