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GmGQ TIL King James VI of Scotland was so notorious for not reading official papers before signing them, his court jester was able to get him to sign his own abdication papers, making his jester King for 15 days.
W1N8 TIL that Sandy Springs, a suburb of Atlanta, has entirely outsourced its government to a private company (CH2M) because being a wealthier area they didn’t want their tax dollars supporting less affluent neighborhoods
eaBE TIL that Saddam Hussein was distrustful of al-Qaeda and viewed Islamic extremists as a threat to his regime, refusing all requests from al-Qaeda to provide material or operational support