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TIL that Osama bin Laden loved sunflowers and one of al-Qaeda’s training centres was on his sunflower farm in Sudan

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a8OOJ TIL Otis Blackwell wrote Don't Be Cruel, All Shook Up & Return to Sender but never met Elvis
PYBLO TIL: In 1900, William Clark, resigned his Montana (MT) senate seat after an investigation found he had won with bribery. In January 1901, a newly elected MT legislature, most of whom had also received financial support from Clark, again elected him to the Senate. Clark fully served out this term.
b9a1p TIL of Kari's Law. In 2013 a woman was murdered in a hotel room by her husband while her nine-year-old daughter tried to call 911 four times. The calls did not go through because the hotel phones required all calls to start with 9 (making 911 9911). The law removes the need for the 9 in hotel phones
44Go TILcolombian druglord Carlos Ledger had so much money. He offered to pay Colombia’s external debt. Not once but twice.
WkoOX TIL that, in 2005, Nepal Airlines sacrificed two goats in front of their two malfunctioning Boeing airplanes to appease Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky god. According to a spokesperson, the snag was fixed and the aircraft could resume their flights.