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TIL: The middle east had a “cold period” in the 900s-1000s and in the winter the Tigris river would Freeze and they would have thick snow on the ground for months in Baghdad.

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gMmN4 TIL under Director J. Edgar Hoover, FBI agents were directed to seize all pornographic materials uncovered in their investigations and forward them to Hoover personally. He reportedly used them for his own titillation and as blackmail.
8aG0X TIL, the Midnight Club was a secret street racing team in Tokyo, bound by a strict moral code that put pedestrian/motorist safety first. The club disbanded in 1999 when a race turned accident killed innocent drivers
DQ7pj TIL that the 1998 film “You’ve Got Mail” was originally titled “You Have Mail” - but after a consultant hired by Warner Brothers found out that AOL hadn’t trademarked their iconic "You’ve Got Mail!" greeting, the film’s title was changed to the one we know today.
nDbG TIL that Olivia de Havilland (Gone With the Wind) and Kirk Douglas (Spartacus), both age 99, are the last two surviving stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age
R57Na TIL that in 1999 a British man, angered at being charged £20 for going £10 overdrawn, legally changed his name to "Yorkshire Bank plc are Fascist Bastards" just to receive a return cheque in that name to settle the account.