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TIL a village in Kerala, India was renamed Saddam Beach during the Gulf War in solidarity. Many people from there worked in the Gulf.

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gd14 TIL Marco Polo did not introduce Italy to pasta via China. Durum wheat, and thus pasta as it is known today, was introduced by Arabs from Libya, during their conquest of Sicily in the 7th century, predating Marco Polo’s travels to China by about six centuries
E1yrp TIL that the USS Indianapolis was sunk 4 days after delivering the enriched uranium for "Little Boy", the first nuclear weapon used in combat. In addition to being the largest ever loss of life for the US Navy at sea, the sinking resulted in the most shark attacks on humans in history.
W1BA TIL that Pope Clement VIII like coffee so much he baptized it so Christians could drink it without going to hell.
xV4aB TIL Queens went from having a 96.54% white population in 1950 to 44.08% of it being white in 2000.
rVP4 TIL Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was, coincidentally, Moon.