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TIL that when US forces invaded Iraq and went to capture or kill Sadam Husseins sons, they hotwired Uday’s Lamborghini LM002 and then blew it up

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6EplY TIL : The factorial of a number is the result of the multiplication of the numbers preceding it and the number itself like : 5! = 12345 = 120
awg0o TIL people scatter their beloved's ashes at Disneyland so much, Disney has a specific code for it. When they catch someone doing it on a ride, they close the ride for clean-up, tell everyone in line there are “technical difficulties” and give them all ‘Fast Passes’ for all the other rides.
orjK TIL that conspiring with another person to facilitate the seduction of a woman (be a wingman) is still an indictable offence in Tasmania, Australia.
rRy8y TIL 15% of the population of Hong Kong (500,000) died in an influenza pandemic in 1968
dD4gZ TIL while filming “The Other Side Of The Wind” in 1970, director Orson Welles was unable to afford to pay his cinematographer Gary Graver for his work. Instead, Welles gave Graver his Oscar statuette that he had won for Best Original Screenplay for “Citizen Kane” in 1941.