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TIL that 12 of Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh's assassin's used British passports, along with 6 Irish, 4 French, 1 German, and 3 Australian passports

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5Yvyp TIL that no one is sure who wrote the original music to the song "Respect," most famously sung by Aretha Franklin. The original performer, Otis Redding, gets the sole songwriting credit, but he took the music and some of the lyrics from an artist who had copied it from another unknown guitarist.
4vVw TIL Because of South Park’s Scientology episode, The Church of Scientology hired people to spy on Matt and Trey to find something on them to use for blackmail. The Church became frustrated when their investigation turned up nothing but the fact that they’re pretty normal people.
ZpM8p TIL of Douglas Adams's posthumous role as Agrajag in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series. Adams never recorded the lines for Agrajag and was dead by the time the BBC revived the series. Agrajag's lines are actually clips from Adams's reading of his books, recorded many years before.
rxQe TIL that while filming Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the live rabbit they used for the “monster” scenes was covered in what they assumed was washable red dye. But when they had trouble cleaning it off, they had to stop filming to desperately clean the rabbit before its owner arrived.
xPxD TIL Almost 50% of Detroit’s remaining 700,000 residents are functionally illiterate; 60% of the children live in poverty (25 facts)