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TIL: Saddam Hussein Claimed He Won The Gulf War.

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J1p9v TIL the final destruction of the wreckage of TWA Flight 800 was completed in 2023, over 20 years after the plane crashed
168R4 TIL: A Grazing Bullet does not need to touch the skin in order for it to wound the skin. It is still considered a gun shot wound.
ADkMw TIL that a professor asked his students to either flip a coin 200 times and record the results or give the fake results of 200 coin tosses. The students were amazed at how the professor easily identified the real results by seeing if they had six heads or tails in a row.
VaRB TIL that beer cans in Japan have braille on them so blind people don’t confuse alcoholic drinks with soft drinks
x6Q41 TIL that in 1897 an Indiana physician believed he found a new mathematical proof to square the circle. He convinced a legislator to propose a bill that would declare π equal to 3.2. While Indiana could teach this proof for free, other states would need to pay a fee to teach it. The bill did not pass