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TIL although Americans have the most unfavorable perception of Iran in the world, most Iranians have positive attitudes towards the American people.

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6rJJ TIL Soaking up grease from a slice of pizza with a napkin saves you about 40 calories.
oRK8R TIL that the said exorcism case which inspired the 1970s novel and movie 'The Exorcist' was supposedly performed on an 14 yeard-old boy in St. Louis in 1949. According to some reports, he passed away in 2020 and worked as an NASA engineer until 2001, contributing to the Apollo Program.
XNBP TIL of Robert Clary who survived two Nazi concentration camps ( Ottmuth and Buchenwald ) and tattooed with the identification “A5714” on his left forearm. We know him as Corporal Louis LeBeau, the sparky French resistence fighter inside a Nazi prison camp on “Hogans Heros”. He is now 91 years old.
Gpa5 TIL there are only two places in the world where civilians are legally allowed to drive and fire tanks and one of them is in Minnesota.
QNXwe TIL about the 1944-54 Kirov wolf attacks. Due to the need of hunters and rifles for WW2, man-eating wolf packs in Russian Kirov region lost their fear of humans, advanced into towns and villages in broad daylight, hunting mainly children and teenagers, killing 22.