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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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Egmew TIL about Alvin Straight, an American man who travelled 240 miles on a riding lawn mower from Laurens, Iowa to Blue River, Wisconsin to visit his ailing brother in 1994.
N1Gb TIL that in 1998, a man named Matthew Shepard was murdered by two men who tied him to a fence, and beat him until he died. Despite the homophobic rhetoric used during their trial Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson were not charged with a hate crime.
ANKpx TIL in 2017, Morgan Spurlock of “Super Size Me” admitted to a history of alcohol abuse, which is now thought to better account for his various health symptoms originally attributed to McDonald’s food.
l7g8B TIL that Dion Dublin, a former English professional footballer, is also an amateur percussionist, and invented a percussion instrument called "The Dube"
J1VYk TIL that during WWII, the town of Swastika, Ontario (founded in 1908) was renamed "Winston" by the provincial government. The residents removed the "Winston" sign and replaced it with a "Swastika" sign with the message, "To hell with Hitler, we came up with our name first."